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Kendrick & Harte #2
The Defender
The Defender
It had fallen from the sky. Its powers were realised long ago in ancient times in Tibet. A gigantic crystal boulder, broken into fragments, and was dispersed to different areas by a secret Tibetan brotherhood to stop its power from being misused.
Dr Jonathan Kendrick and Ella Kaczka are back in England, ready to start a new life at HRG, an archaeological section of a well-funded private research institute. But what Kendrick thought would be a peaceful reunion with an old friend turns into anything but—he watches as his friend is killed for the magical stone, and escapes with it by a hairbreadth.
Obliged to pay his respects to his friend’s family, he travels to America, and gets embroiled into tracking down the girl who is connected to his friend’s death. Also along with him is Danny Yen, his friend’s estranged brother, and when they find the girl, Nima Yangchen, the heir to a secret, dwindling brotherhood, they realise they need to find all the stones dispersed in different locations. Simon Harte, a recovering adrenalin addict, and Ella join the race, but the enemy, in the form of a mysterious and deadly assassin isn’t the only drawback—could the DARPA agents who also have an interest in the mysterious stones be totally trusted?
The journey leads them to various countries in South Asia and to the steel fortress in the hellishly cold Siberia where an embittered man known as the Dealer will do anything to retrieve the stones and use them for his own sinister purpose. It’s another thrilling action-escapade with touches of Sci-fi from the author of Elixir Stone and Ritual Temple.
It had fallen from the sky. Its powers were realised long ago in ancient times in Tibet. A gigantic crystal boulder, broken into fragments, and was dispersed to different areas by a secret Tibetan brotherhood to stop its power from being misused.
Dr Jonathan Kendrick and Ella Kaczka are back in England, ready to start a new life at HRG, an archaeological section of a well-funded private research institute. But what Kendrick thought would be a peaceful reunion with an old friend turns into anything but—he watches as his friend is killed for the magical stone, and escapes with it by a hairbreadth.
Obliged to pay his respects to his friend’s family, he travels to America, and gets embroiled into tracking down the girl who is connected to his friend’s death. Also along with him is Danny Yen, his friend’s estranged brother, and when they find the girl, Nima Yangchen, the heir to a secret, dwindling brotherhood, they realise they need to find all the stones dispersed in different locations. Simon Harte, a recovering adrenalin addict, and Ella join the race, but the enemy, in the form of a mysterious and deadly assassin isn’t the only drawback—could the DARPA agents who also have an interest in the mysterious stones be totally trusted?
The journey leads them to various countries in South Asia and to the steel fortress in the hellishly cold Siberia where an embittered man known as the Dealer will do anything to retrieve the stones and use them for his own sinister purpose. It’s another thrilling action-escapade with touches of Sci-fi from the author of Elixir Stone and Ritual Temple.
540 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 31, 2017
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