The Alpha Enigma - W Michael Gear Kartoniert (TB)

A thrilling new science fiction mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of the Donovan novels Dr. Timothy Ryan head of the military psychiatric unit at Grantham Barracks is meeting a new patient a woman known as Prisoner Alpha. As she is being transferred they are attacked by assassins barely escaping with their lives. One shooter vanishes leaving behind a dead companion unlike anyone Ryan has ever seen. But even more baffling is the puzzle of Alpha herself. She speaks in a strange tongue and doodles in bars dots and little pictures like nothing Ryan has ever seen. Is she s ome sort of savant or the most cunning spy he's ever met? Meanwhile in Egypt archaeologist Reid Farmer uncovers an 18th-Dynasty tomb that shouldn't exist filled with Mayan epigraphy mathematics and materials that didn't exist 3 000 years ago. As a result of this discovery Reid and forensic anthropologist Kilgore France along with the sarcophagus they have found are snatched away to a hidden lab to solve the enigma of a man lost in time. As dark forces gather Alpha makes an impossible escape from Grantham. Ryan quickly becomes the prime suspect in her disappearance but with a team of unique allies sets out to prove his innocence. Together they must find Alpha and save Ryan before it is too late.