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Zusatztext “A true gem. Grade: A.” -- Rocky Mountain News “This bone-chilling thriller...keeps the reader on a razor-sharp edge.” -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Informationen zum Autor Robin White has been an oil-well roughneck, an oil-well-logging engineer, a science writer, a community energy planner, and an architect by vocation, an instrument-rated pilot by avocation. He has lived all over the United States and in Europe, including Russia and Siberia. He now lives near Monterey, California, with his wife. Klappentext It was just another murder. Another Mafia shooting on a dark Moscow street. But for Gregori Nowek, the new Siberian delegate, this killing was personal. To find out who ordered his best friend shot, Nowek must recover a vast cache of diamonds that vanished somewhere between Siberia's mines and Moscow's vaults. Plunged into a world of glittering gems and dangerous lies, Nowek races to find the diamonds before the world learns they're gone. His search will take him back to the place he knows best...Siberia. There, in a gem-filled chasm deep in the earth, are secrets guarded by the murderous greed of the diamond cartel and kept by a beautiful woman trapped behind her own curtain of ice. Caught in a staggering conspiracy, Nowek will risk his life to find the truth...and to bring an astounding act of deception into the light of day.Chapter 1 The Dead Zone Blue, white, gold, and black. In Siberia, the seasons are colors, though not the ones you’d expect in a land the imagination keeps buried under eternal ice and endless snows. The sunless days of black winter yield to blue spring when the new shoots of larch, cedar, and pine emerge, their pale leaves the color of an arctic dawn. By July, Siberia steams under a sun that hardly sets before rising again. The sky hazes to humid alabaster, and from Novosibirsk to Magadan, white summer has begun. Summer teeters on a knife edge in the far north, where it can snow any month of the year. The calendar might say August, but the hard frosts have already arrived in the arctic mining city of Mirny. In Mirny, summer is an incandescent flash of light and heat. In Mirny, the ground stays frozen to the depth of a kilometer. The people marooned there call the rest of Siberia The Earth. When the world hears Siberia’s name and conjures up a desolate, treeless hell of ice and barbed wire, it’s Mirny they’re imagining. Alexei checked his watch. The crystal was covered with the same gray dust that covered everything in Mirny. It was shattered kimberlite, a soft volcanic rock in which diamond, the hardest of gems, was found. He licked his thumb and rubbed the face until the numerals appeared. Nearly three. Alexei had a commanding view of the world from the cab of a Belaz 7530, an ore truck the size of a three-story house. From up here he could look over the motor pool’s barbed-wire fence, across the roofs of the old log cabin dormitories to the lip of the open pit mine and beyond, all the way to a sunset horizon fired deep ceramic red. It was August nineteen, Alex’s twenty-first birthday. His mother had prepared a picnic lunch with good bread, cheese, and smoked fish. Even his father, a big boss at the company, had taken off work to join them. Alex had told him the truth and now it terrified him to think it had been a mistake. After all, Kristall owned everything in Mirny. Everything and everyone. He flicked his cigarette out the window. The third shift at the mine came up at three. Any minute. A Belaz 7530 was more like a ship riding on giant wheels than a truck, and Mirny was more like an island than a city; a remote atoll of dirty, spalled concrete surrounded by a sea of tundra as dangerous as any ocean. It was an impassable mud bog in summer and absolutely lethal in winter when deep cold shattered rubber tires as though they were made...
Product details
| Authors | Robin White |
| Publisher | Dell Publishing Inc. |
| Languages | English |
| Product format | Paperback |
| Released | 01.01.2003 |
| EAN | 9780440226246 |
| ISBN | 978-0-440-22624-6 |
| No. of pages | 448 |
| Dimensions | 106 mm x 174 mm x 23 mm |
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