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A low‑frequency signal emerging from deep within Antarctica’s ice surface coincides with the revival of ancient Atlantis, a legendary city that appears to be an enormous, planet‑wide machine. As monuments from the Pyramids of Giza, Mexico, and ancient China react in strange synchrony, Earth spirals into panic. With only one week left, the world’s powers—American and Chinese—stand on the brink of war over control of Atlantis’s secrets, encoded in crystal shards recovered from the sunken city. The story intertwines Mayan prophecies marking 2012 as the year of the world’s end with the desperate, global struggle to decipher and survive this looming extraterrestrial threat.
First publish date: 2001
Genre: Suspense/Supernatural Suspense
Authors: Stel Pavlou
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