During World War II, in a secret Nazi submarine base, containers crafted entirely from looted wartime gold were hidden away. The treasure was not the solid gold chests, but the cargo they carried—an artifact so lethal that whoever possessed “Pandora’s boxes” held the power to unleash hell upon the Earth…In the unforgiving wastes of Greenland, geologist Philip Mercer uncovers a long-abandoned U.S. Army base buried under the ice**—**and a long-dead body still hot wit...

In the heart of Panama, a volcanic lake feeds a serpentine river—its stone banks laid by the Inca, who took back the gold and jewels plundered from them by the conquistadors. Legend has it that the Twice-Stolen Treasure has been buried for centuries in the Panamanian jungle. Discovering it means surviving the unpredictable black waters of the River of Ruin....It begins at a Paris auction house, with a favor granted by an old high school friend to geologist Philip M...

In the tiny African nation of Eritrea, the American spy satellite Medusa has crashed but not before its sensors revealed an underground kimberlite pipeline, the telltale sign of a huge load of diamonds. The mine turns out to be King Solomon's Lost Mine, but with it is a tale of heartbreak---it was children who worked and died in the mine for 400 years, leading to many local myths of curses. It is also practically on the border with a very unfriendly Sudan. Throw in two warring Israeli fact...

What was Amelia Earhart carrying on her final flight? The adventure begins two thousand feet beneath the surface of the Earth.Philip Mercer, a preeminent geologist with a taste for international intrigue and danger, rides an elevator two thousand feet into the earth at the Leister Deep Mine in Minnesota. Mercer is there to visit his old friend and mentor, Abraham Jacobs, who is leading a research team to the deepest section of the mine for a groundbreaking...

USA Today bestselling author Jack Du Brul brings back geologist-adventurer Philip Mercer for an apocalyptic adventure.Hired to lead the excavation of caverns deep beneath Area 51, Philip Mercer finds himself drilling straight into the epicenter of an age-old conspiracy. A reclusive order of Himalayan monks, through special knowledge of the earth’s tectonic movement, has predicted the end of the world—and it is determined to see the prediction unfold accord...

New Jersey, 1937: A homicidal madman bears a safe holding a terrible secret that is thought lost when fiery fate intervenes. Decades later, the discovery of that secret is about to threaten the world once more....Mining engineer Philip Mercer is in the war-torn Central African Republic searching for precious metal. There, he meets Cali Stone, a field researcher for the CDC who is investigating why a certain village suffers from one of the highest rates of cancer in the world-a fact...

Nel 1954 una nave russa che trasporta una bomba atomica viene fatta segretamente affondare nell’Oceano Pacifico. Il piano è di farla esplodere sul fondale, creando così un vulcano la cui lava verrà elaborata per ottenere un metallo dalle caratteristiche eccezionali e adatto a innumerevoli usi nel campo della difesa, dell’industria aerospaziale e nella produzione di energia. Quarant’anni dopo l’impero russo collassa, l’intero piano viene venduto alla Corea del Nord determinata a diventare l...

Summer 1914.A murder investigation leads Detective Isaac Bell into the heart of a sinister conspiracy against America’s newly launched Federal Reserve.While President Woodrow Wilson celebrates aboard his yacht, Bell spots a low-flying plane threatening the nation’s leaders.His quick action prevents an assassination - but this attack is only the beginning of a far deadlier plot.Bell soon uncovers a web of double-crosses invol...

Philip Mercer, a preeminent geologist with a taste for international intrigue and danger, rides an elevator two thousand feet into the earth at the Leister Deep Mine in Minnesota. Mercer is there to visit his old friend and mentor, Abraham Jacobs, who is leading a research team to the deepest section of the mine for a groundbreaking study on climate change. But as Mercer approaches, he is stunned to hear automatic gunfire in the massive underground chambers. By the time he finds his way to...

Dieci anni prima il satellite Medusa viene lanciato nell’atmosfera per mappare la geologia del territorio centro-africano. In soli tre minuti e mezzo, il Medusa passa dal sommo successo a un irrimediabile disastro. Mentre cade dallo spazio e viene avviluppato da un’incandescente palla di fuoco bianca, il satellite studia l’incolta e arida terra africana. Sotterrato da tonnellate di roccia e pietra, vede qualcosa che l’uomo aveva nascosto più di duemila anni addietro nella speranza che ness...

Can one detective stop a war being lost just as it starts?August, 1914, the eve of WWI, and in New York the Van Dorn Detective Agency is supervising the loading of a final shipment of rifles bound for Britain. When Chief Investigator Isaac Bell discovers a hidden radio transmitter, he realises it will broadcast the exact location of the merchant ship to waiting German U-boats.This ship is saved - but two others have already departed.In a desperate r...

It begins deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, where a nuclear bomb strikes at the fiery hot heart of the earth. Churning, spewing boiling lava, a volcano rises with unnatural speed from the ocean floor -- the source of a new mineral that promises clean, limitless nuclear power.It continues in hot spots around the globe: Hawaii, where a secessionist movement is about to turn violent and the American army may be asked to fire on U.S. citizens; Washington, D.C., where the subway system be...