The U.S. has launched the Medusa, a super sophisticated surveillance satellite as part of the Star Wars defense initiative. It is capable of uncovering subterrean features such as bunkers and missile silos much like xrays reveal bones. An accidental collision with some space junk causes the Medusa to plummet back to the Earth's surface. Spinning wildly out of control the satellite manages to take photographs of a remote...
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My first 5 star review for Mr. Du Brul, and well deserved. I picked this up at the Orlando airport, disappointed that I couldn't find another book I had been looking for, but desperate to be able to spend my time on the plane reading SOMETHING, I grabbed 'The Medusa Stone' and began an incredible adventure that began thousands of years ago. I'd tell you WHAT they are looking for, but finding out is actually a very tantalizing...
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Jack DuBrul's Medusa Stone will leave your bruised,battered and exhausted. The heart-pounding, fast-paced, non-stop action takes you to the far reaches of the globe and back again. Mercer is once again thrown into the middle of an ever twisting plot. But this time it's personal. An impossible task of finding the lost mine is just one of Mercer's worries. Throw in an international terriost group, a multi-millionaire...
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After the excitement of the last few years Mercer finds thatthe humdrum of his work is getting too tedious. Without any warningto him and his drinking pal, Harry White, all of that is to change.The vague pictures of a failed satellite from years before set in motion intrigue that goes from Washington, DC to Italy to Israel to Africa. Drawn into the fray, by the kidnapping of Harry, Mercer fights the elements and two factions...
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After his adventures and romance in Alaska and Hawaii, mining engineer Dr. Philip Mercer is bored writing reports in DC. He mentions his lethargy to his eighty-year-old drinking buddy Harry White.Undersecretary of State for African Affairs Prescott Hyde tries to hire Philip to locate a large diamond mine in the dangerous Northern Eritea. In spite of showing pictures taken from the Medusa satellite that crashed a decade...
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