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Reclusive researcher Seth Peterson has located a doomsday fault in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet—a mile-thick ice cube as big as Mexico. Millions of people could perish if it slides off the continent and floods coastal cities. This knowledge—and his heroics at a fateful traffic accident—puts Seth under the scrutiny of media, law enforcement, and a band of environmental extremists desperate to fulfill an overdue prophecy. Their cataclysmic objective seems believable to Seth—as does their plan to exterminate him, the only living witness to their scheme.
During the course of his research at The National Ice Center in Washington, D.C., Seth Peterson is shocked to realize that a huge chunk of Antarctica—what Seth dubs the doomsday fault—is poised to break off at any time. If that happens, millions of people earth-wide will perish.
The world must know. In fact, Seth's boss at The Center, Bern Harris, is begging for the information. But Seth can't tell him—or anyone else, for that matter. Clinically shy, running from a past replete with humiliating failures, including deserting his bride-to-be at the altar, he’s too frightened of people t | |  | | Wake Up Dead
What if you could dream your own future? And what if you could change it? Would that save you when you dream your own death?
After researcher Mason Brooks invents a dream-the-future machine, he uses it to amass riches in stocks and gambling and to impress the young and comely Monica Westfield. But then he starts dreaming, and avoiding, his own death with increasing frequency. Death is seemingly imminent. The various lethal dreams share only one common component: the presence of a complete stranger, Paul Fontana. Now Brooks and Fontana are linked in an enigmatic death dance. Desperate to solve the mysterious bond, Brooks invites Paul into his home. Throw in a gun, a love interest, Sigmund Freud, and a prophetic golde |
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