James Rollins: The Last Oracle
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Жанр : Orion Books
Издательство : Orion Books
Год издания : 2009
Аннотация:
What if you could bio-engineer the next great world prophet, to scientifically produce the next Buddha, the next Mohammed, or the next Jesus? Would it mark the Second Coming or initiate a chain reaction leading to the end of mankind? A think tank of world scientists formed during the Cold War has discovered a way to manipulate and enhance autistic children who show savant talents — mathematical geniuses, statistical masterminds, brilliant conceptual artists — but a strange side-effect begins to arise. Before it can be analyzed fully, a rogue group of scientists begin their own secret experimentation with a cadre of the best children. They seek to create a world prophet for the new millennium, one to be manipulated to create a new era of global peace — a peace on their own terms. But such manipulation has grim consequences as a biological meltdown among the children begins to occur — turning the innocent into something frightening. Can Commander Gray Pierce and his elite SIGMA Force stop the experiments before they engineer the extinction of mankind? It will be a race against time to solve a mystery that dates back to the first famous oracle of history — the Oracle of Delphi...