Domain, Steve Alten
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Domain

Author: Steve Alten

Unabridged: 17 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/15/2016


Synopsis

An asteroid impacts Earth, forever changing life on our planet. Only the object wasnt an asteroid For thirty-two years, archaeologist Julius Gabriel investigated the Mayan calendar, a 2,500-year-old enigma of time and space that predicts humanity will perish on December 21, 2012 (the winter solstice). Julius believes that certain mysterious sites: the Great Pyramid of Giza, Stonehenge, the giant desert drawings of the Nazca Plateau, the temple of Angkor Wat, the Pyramid of the Sun, and the key sitethe Kukulcn Pyramid at Chichn Itz in the Yucatn Peninsula, site of the ancient asteroid impactrepresent pieces of a global puzzle linked to the salvation of our species. Ridiculed by his peers, Julius dies before he can solve the doomsday prophecy. Now, only one person can prevent our annihilationJulius son, Michael, a patient locked up in a Miami mental asylum. Miami, 2012. Psychology major Dominique Vazquez reports to a Miami asylum to complete her graduate internship. The new director assigns her to a special patientMick Gabriel, a paranoid schizophrenic with a high IQ. Mick attempts to charm her into believing his fathers theories of the apocalypse so he can escape. What Dominique doesnt realize is that she represents Micks last hope of saving humanity. Fall equinox, 2012. As it has done for a thousand years, a serpents shadow appears on the northern balustrade of the Kukulcn Pyramid. As a rare galactic alignment occurs, a deep space radio transmission reaches Earth, activating the remnants of an object buried long ago in the Gulf of Mexico. It is the beginning of the end.

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