Now a new book in the library signed North: The Altar of Eden James Rollins
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Title: The Altar of Eden
Original title: Altar of Eden
Author: James Rollins
Publisher: North
Collection: Fiction
Pages: 448
Price: € 19.60
Release date: February 24, 2011
Plot
Iraq, in April 2003. Baghdad has just been conquered by the U.S. Army: the city is in chaos, and while the soldiers try to stem looting and robbery, armed men break into the zoo and steal from an underground lab results a revolutionary experiment. The weapons, however, can not protect them from the creature that suddenly emerges from the darkness ...
New Orleans today. A fishing vessel foundered off the coast of Louisiana, the crew members missing, blood everywhere and, in the hold, a cargo of illegal exotic animals: this is the scenario that is presented to the veterinary Lorna Polk, Jack Menard called the agent to provide initial care to the precious animals. Intrigued by their unique physical anomalies and their amazing intelligence, Lorna immediately suspected of daring to be the guinea pigs for genetic manipulation. But curiosity turns to terror when they first discovered that a ferocious saber-toothed jaguar escaped into the swamp, and then is saved by a miracle from the explosion that destroys the vessel. To shed light on the origin of that mysterious burden, in fact, Jack and Lorna will be facing a powerful and implacable enemy, willing to do anything to hide the truth. Because these animals are the guardians of an unsuspecting shocking secret, a secret that dates back to the very origin of the human race ...
New Orleans today. A fishing vessel foundered off the coast of Louisiana, the crew members missing, blood everywhere and, in the hold, a cargo of illegal exotic animals: this is the scenario that is presented to the veterinary Lorna Polk, Jack Menard called the agent to provide initial care to the precious animals. Intrigued by their unique physical anomalies and their amazing intelligence, Lorna immediately suspected of daring to be the guinea pigs for genetic manipulation. But curiosity turns to terror when they first discovered that a ferocious saber-toothed jaguar escaped into the swamp, and then is saved by a miracle from the explosion that destroys the vessel. To shed light on the origin of that mysterious burden, in fact, Jack and Lorna will be facing a powerful and implacable enemy, willing to do anything to hide the truth. Because these animals are the guardians of an unsuspecting shocking secret, a secret that dates back to the very origin of the human race ...
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