THE PRESENCEA NEW NOVEL BY JOHN SAULA strange archaeological discovery. Secret medical experiments on an island paradise. A scientific theory torn from today's headlines. John Saul, the New York Times bestselling author of The Blackstone Chronicles, weaves these chilling elements into his most frightening novel yet.It is an offer anthropologist Katharine Sundquist cannot refuse. A chance to study the unusual skeletal remains unearthed on the volcanic flanks of Haleakala, Maui. Yet for Katharine's sixteen-year-old son, Michael, the sudden move is jarring. It's the last thing he needs while struggling with the still painful death of his father. And here, beyond the sparkling beaches, masked by the deceptive beauty of the rainforest, a terrible danger waits. As white-hot magma spews from the volcano on the Big Island, sending a life-choking fog over Maui, while below the black depths of the Pacific a substance far more deadly than lava snakes through undiscovered fissures in the ocean floor, nature itself seems to portend the terror to come. It begins with a video transmission so shocking that Katharine cannot believe what flashes on her computer screen--then instantly, inexplicably, vanishes. Secret deliveries in the dead of night to a restricted wing of the high-tech laboratory in which she works signal that behind locked doors some sinister experiment is unfolding. And then, with the sudden, unexplained death of Michael's friend, a disturbing truth dawns: the corporation that is funding Katharine's dig has a far greater investment than she has imagined--an investment in medical terror. And her son may be part of their hideous grand plan. Michael's chances of survival: next to none. If you feel your chest tightening in terror...an icy shiver creeping up your spine...a burning sensation throbbing in your legs...or a panicky feeling that someone--something--is following you...then you've been exposed to The Presence.
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