Xillos

Harvey Harris

• 01 maart 2006
• 9780595675661

Samenvatting:

XILLOS (ZEE-los) is a story of intrigue woven around a quintet of major characters whose lives intertwine through stages of survival, ambition, love, violence, and revenge. The beginning finds us twenty years in the future where WorldGovernment sans frontiers has been established. XILLOS is now the enforcerof peace on planet Earth, ushering in a new order of law and justice. All iswell until one of the Committee of Nine, the highest office that rules,cunningly perpetrates an act of duplicity and subterfuge. Two brilliant doctors and a Supreme Court justice collaborate to change theworld. A death camp survivor stumbles on a new, and most importantinvention of the millennium. The rapacious CEO of one of the world'slargest companies embarks on a quest that unravels in a way he never couldhave anticipated. His most trusted employee carries out his directives withan alarming ruthlessness and brutality. A teenage boy finds himself aninnocent fugitive and is stymied in his efforts to extricate himself as thetarget of both an assassin and the police, eventually becoming an unwittinghero. The closing pages stun and surprise even the cleverest of mystery buffs.