A small cube of black rock has been unearthed in a 3500-year-old Mycenaean tomb.
An incomprehensible object in an impossible place; its age, its purpose and its origins are unknown.
Its discovery has unleashed a storm of intrigue, theft and espionage, and is pushing nations to the brink of war.
Its substance has scientists baffled. And the miracle it contains does not belong on this Earth.
It is mystery and madness - an enigma with no equal in recorded history. It is mankind's greatest discovery ... and worst nightmare.
It may already have obliterated a world.
Ours is next.
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- ISBN10 1841490628
- ISBN13 9781841490625
- Publish Date 5 July 2001 (first published 14 November 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 July 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Orbit
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 432
- Language English