'Totally engrossing' - STEPHEN KING on The Ninth Metal THE FINAL
BOOK IN PERCY'S CRITICALLY CLAIMED COMET CYCLE SERIES! The comet,
Cain, came from beyond our solar system, its debris containing
elements unknown. Now, in the isolated region of Fairbanks, Alaska,
the skies shift and stretch as an interstellar dust cloud seeds the
atmosphere. When a plane shudders its way through pulpy, swirling,
bruise-shaped clouds, lit with sudden cracks of lightning, the sky
opens and the aircraft vanishes...but only for a minute. When the
flight lands, everyone on board and in the community will be
changed forever. Chuck Bridges, a local DJ and conspiracy theorist,
was on board and later reported dead to his family, but not before
proclaiming that something inside the clouds was speaking to him.
Now his son, Theo, must chase down answers to the mystery his
father unlocked. He'll find himself at odds with Sophie Chen, an
agent with a shadowy employer desperate to secure the black box
from the airplane, as well as Rolf Wagner, a widowed sheriff
investigating a series of increasingly strange and unsettling
reports. And then there is Joanna Straub, a contractor
reconstructing a top-secret government lab active during WWII and
shuttered deep within the nearby White Mountains. The answer to the
comet's origin is about to be unveiled, and its impact on Earth is
more treacherous and sublime than humanity could imagine. 'Take one
part dystopia, one part sci-fi, two parts apocalypse, then ride
them roughshod through a bleak and bloody western, and it still
wouldn't get close to what Ben Percy does here, which is blow open
the core of humanity's dark heart.' - Marlon James, Booker
Prize-winning author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf, on The Ninth Metal
'The Stephen King of science fiction.' - Margaret Stohl, New York
Times bestselling author, on The Ninth Metal 'Audacious and
intelligent and exactly what I was dying to read.' - Victor
LaValle, author of The Changeling, on The Ninth Metal 'This
standout combination of science and psychology is sure to wow SF
fans.' Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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