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First published in the United States of America by Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Press 2008
First published in Great Britain as an electronic edition by Penguin Books 2013
Copyright © David Lynn Golemon, 2008
Photo/illustration design by patrick.knowles@ntlworld.com
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The moral right of the author has been asserted
This is a work of fiction. All the characters, organizations and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
ISBN: 978-1-405-91199-3
Prologue: The Fall of Olympus
Part One: THOR’S HAMMER
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Part Two: ON THE TRAIL OF THE ANCIENTS
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Part Three: ANCIENTS RISING
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Part Four: ATLANTIS
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Epilogue: The Last of the Ancients
Acknowledgments
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For my father—who I lost this past year, I wish I had been as good to you as you were to me. Twenty-twenty hindsight can be a horrible and haunting thing. I can only hope and pray that you could see beyond my youth, see the man, and know in your heart I tried to be the best I could be.
For Roxie—a cousin, now a sister, for enduring the unendurable, the loss of a child, it should happen to no one in the entire world. My heart is broken for you.
For Maribeth—to the ghosts of youth, may we forever be haunted and happier for it.
To the United States Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Army; for the assistance in the writing of this novel, you have my deepest thanks.
To the United States Geological Service and the help that was given on theory and science. The assistance rendered was far beyond anything and I am grateful.
For Pete Wolverton, who always reminds me I can be better than the first draft (and sometimes better than even the second).
