Bantam Books, UK, 2008. Trade Paperback. Fine. Trade Paperback. 361 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Bantam Books, UK, 2008. *** CONDITION: This book is in fine condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: An ancient skull with a terrible legacy has just been found. It signals that the end of the world starts now. . . . . Ancient wisdom predicts the end of the world with uncanny precision. But it also provides the key to staving off apocalypse - a flawless sapphire of incomparable beauty carved into the perfect likeness of a human skull. Stella Cody has discovered a crystal skull of exquisite beauty. It has been hidden for four centuries. She also inherits its legacy of dark secrets, intrigue, and murder. Facing an increasingly implacable enemy, Stella and her lover, Kit, struggle to crack the code that hides the skull's intended resting place. Their search takes them from the intellectual rigour of Cambridge University to the untamed wildness of England's prehistoric stone circles. But time is against them, and they have only hours left to uncover the secret that may yet save the world. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Thrillers; ISBN/EAN: 9780593055717. Inventory No: 13010175.. 9780593055717

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In a spellbinding blend of history, myth, and science, bestselling novelist Manda Scott unleashes a thriller that sweeps from the secrets of the Mayans to the court of a sixteenth-century queen to a shattering end-times prophecy. "It's a lump of rock, Stella; nothing more. No stone is worth dying for." Except it's not just a lump of rock. It's a blue crystal skull made by the Maya to save the world from ruin; a sapphire so perfect, so powerful that for centuries men have killed to own or destroy it.Ancient prophecies say that if the thirteen skulls already in existence are not reunited, the world will end on December 21, 2012. Cedric Owen, the skull's last Keeper, died so that it might keep its secret for the next four centuries. Now Stella Cody has found it, and someone has already tried to kill her. Like Owen, she's being hunted--but by whom?Desperate to unravel the mystery of the crystal skull, Stella must decode Cedric Owen's coded writings, sketches and ciphers no scholar has been able to unravel. What she discovers is astounding: a shocking secret prophecy...and the staggering puzzle of four terrifying creatures, thirteen precious stones, and what will happen if Cedric Owen's crystal skull falls into the wrong hands. But time is against Stella. She has only days--hours--left to uncover the only secret that may yet save the world.12.21.12The date is set. Time is running out.The end of the world starts now.From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: Manyhills Books (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 13010175
Title: The Crystal Skull
Author: Manda Scott
Format/Binding: Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0593055713
ISBN 13: 9780593055717
Publisher: Bantam Books
Place of Publication: UK
Date Published: 2008
Keywords: BZDB5 Fiction; The Crystal Skull
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction;

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