Saye ea) i “A fascinating page-turner with enough spellbinding intrigue to Pre | until the authors’ next tale. Full of action with terrific characters and i ER Cu ag Ne AC LeU CRS tgPaul had been up all night... .. feverishly testing and retesting. He had to keep this un- der wraps until Frik saw it. 4 Paul pointed to the object sitting in the center of the cleared area on his workbench. Prik stared at it “What the hell is it?” “It’s those rocks your men found when they were drilling underwater.” “I gave you four objects,” Frik said, staring at the assem- bly. When Paul had started analyzing the objects, the first thing he'd discovered was that they weren’t made of turquoise or mother-of-pearl or anything else he had ever = seen. The second was that they were all part of a whole. . Frik bent and stared at the unified object from different angles. “They look even weirder together than they did apart.” “Look weird?” Paul said, repressing a grin. “You don’t know weird until you see what it does. Watch that goose- neck lamp right in front of you.” Paul rotated the assembly back and forth, and then the bulb flared, sixty watts climbed to one hundred. All the lamps in the room seemed to have doubled their wattage. The overhead fan whined and jittered, sounding as if it were about to take off. Paul smiled. “Did you feel the air temperature drop? That was a full ten degrees. Your skin temperature drops as well. Only the device doesn’t change temperature.” 5 Fritz looked shaken. “Christ, Paul . . . what is it?” -