The Golden Ellipse (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | John P Hopkins | knygos.lt

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Book One in The Powers That Be Trilogy of science fiction adventure novels, The GOLDEN ELLIPSE, is a fast-paced thriller introducing intrepid newlyweds Rachel and Owen Haig. Fresh off a space tourism flight in 2044, they are thrust on a perilous crusade while adjusting to married life and battling demons from Rachel's past. Against formidable odds and malevolent forces from Earth and beyond, they are helped by an irascible French robot and an agent dispatched from a clandestine organization, The Powers That Be.

90,000 BC: Light Specters, aka Foo Fighters, the quintessential race of pure energy beings in a crowded universe, erect a proto-pyramidic lighthouse beacon on a desolate savannah. While the structure fosters a nascent hominid species through its turbulent prehistory, a misanthropic faction splinters from the spectral race and conspires to silence the beacon's signal by removing its infinite energy source, the golden ellipse.

1944 AD: After eons of failure, a Nazi spy loots the golden ellipse from atop the beacon-long since concealed in a chamber buried deep beneath the Great Pyramid. The random act unwittingly triggers the splintered aliens' apocalyptic plan for a marauding universe to interpret the warning's cessation as open season on Earth.

In the fog of world war, the looted golden ellipse changes hands until two American pilots bury it in the Libyan desert, never to return, experiencing disparate paranormal fates. Meanwhile, The Powers That Be dispatches black-suited investigators searching for the pilots-and the solid gold enigma-but the trail goes cold.

2044 AD: Fresh off a white-knuckle space tourism touchdown in France, Rachel, and Owen Haig's honeymoon is hijacked by a ghost from Rachel's ancestral past. The ethereal entity sends the couple on a dangerous odyssey across North Africa to recover the golden ellipse and replace it atop the beacon before time runs out. Culminating in a harrowing pitch-black descent through a labyrinthine maze twisting far beneath the Giza Plateau, their destiny collides with a psychopathic Egyptologist and a monstrous alien presence as invasion fleets breach the sky.

By the gripping conclusion, readers will be chomping at the bit for the next riveting book in The Powers That Be Trilogy with eyes wide open and a unique new perspective on humankind's place in the universe.

Includes an excerpt from THE LOST SHIP, Book Two in The Powers That Be Trilogy.