Impact -- Douglas Preston

<p><b>In Douglas Preston's <i>Impact</i>, Wyman Ford is tapped for a secret expedition to Cambodia... to locate the source of strangely beautiful gemstones that do not appear to be of this world.<br></b><br>A brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast... and two young women borrow a boat and set out for a distant island to find the impact crater. <p/>A scientist at the National Propulsion Facility discovers an inexplicable source of gamma rays in the outer Solar System. He is found decapitated, the data missing. <p/>High resolution NASA images reveal an unnatural feature hidden in the depths of a crater on Mars... and it appears to have been activated. <p/>Sixty hours and counting.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Douglas Preston<br><b>Publisher:</b> Forge<br><b>Published:</b> 12/28/2010<br><b>Pages:</b> 368<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 1.02lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.96d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781250841476<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Douglas Preston</b> is the co-author with Lincoln Child of the celebrated Pendergast series of novels, including such best-selling titles as <i>Fever Dream</i>, <i>The Book of the Dead</i>, <i>The Wheel of Darkness</i>, and <i>Relic</i>, which became a number one box office hit movie. His solo novels include the <i>New York Times</i> bestsellers <i>Blasphemy</i>, <i>The Codex</i>, and <i>Tyrannosaur Canyon</i>. His nonfiction books include <i>The Monster of Florence.</i> Preston is an expert long-distance horseman, a