The Index
- List Price: $19.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Bookman Pub
- Publish date: 03/01/2004
Description:
An object races across the sky, low, skimming the mountain tops. Something falls to earth and shatters on the hillside. Adam Bly finds it and picks up a piece. What he becomes is awesome and frightening. A different person, having now an overwhelming power that is unbelievable. Such a power, he and his parents realize, could be used to good advantage, perhaps even, to alter the entire course of mankind. Or, in the wrong hands, could turn all civilization into utter chaos. The Third Reich, striving for world domination in world war two, learns, through treason, of Adam's power. A huge sum is paid, Adam and his father are abducted at gunpoint and spirited away to Germany. Every dire scheme imaginable is used to wrest the power from Adam. Sweet talk promises, threats, prison, intimidation, torture.The space ship lands in Germany, the two space men come in contact with Adam after he and his father succeed in a daring escape from the Nazis. Adam is forced to relinquish the power to the aliens when threatened with terrible torture. Their plot for world domination would be carried out quietly and unnoticed at a given time and would be accomplished in a few hours. Adam and his father are recaptured by the Nazis. Adam learns, with only minutes to spare, what must be done to stop the takeover by the aliens. The takeover is averted but the Nazis refuse to allow Adam to return to America. They are burning for revenge. They want him to suffer. Suffer for the humiliating trauma forced upon them with the devastating power he possessed.Yet he does escape. A plan is devised by US Intelligence. Precise . Daring. He is yanked from under the very noses of the Nazis. They learn of the escape and give chase. Down the Elbe River and into the North Sea using every trick in the book.
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