In the remote wastes of Greenland, a young scientist has unearthed an artifact hidden in a cave for a millennium: a 50,000-year-old meteorite known as the Sacred Stone – which he soon discovers possesses potentially catastrophic radioactive power. But the astounding find places him in the cross-hairs of two opposing terrorist groups who seek the stone for themselves.

One is a group of Muslim extremists who have stolen a nuclear device. With the power of the meteorite, they could vaporize any city in the West. The other group is led by a megalomaniacal industrialist who seeks to carry out the utter annihilation of Islam itself.

Caught between two militant factions bent on wholesale slaughter, Juan Cabrillo and his ship of high-tech mercenaries known as the Corporation must fight to protect the scientist and the Sacred Stone – and prevent the outbreak of World War III…  

źródło opisu: Penguin Books, 2005
źródło okładki: Zdjęcie autorskie