Christopher Lane

Valhalla / the Bone Hunters Christopher Lane

VALHALLA
Far beneath the Greenland ice cap, an expedition team searching for a lost World War II bomber makes an astounding discovery. Encased in the ice five hundred feet beneath the plane is the wreckage of an ancient ship--and nine perfectly preserved Viking crewmen. Rune markings reveal it to be more than a thousand years old.

The secret is unimaginable.

Expedition leader Steven Macaulay, a retired Air Force officer, assembles a team of the world's foremost Norse archaeologists, including Harvard academic Alexandra "Lexy" Vaughan, to decipher the puzzle. But their mission is violently sabotaged--because the discovery holds the key to a plot that will change the human race.

The implications are staggering.

Stranded on a vast landscape of ice, wind, and unendurable cold, Macaulay and Lexy are plunged headlong into a web of chaos and betrayal at the highest levels of world government--all the while hunted by a covert international society that will stop at nothing to protect its quest for world domination.

THE BONE HUNTERS
One of the greatest archaeological finds of all time, Peking Man, the 780,000-year-old remains of our earliest known human ancestor, disappeared during World War II from a cargo ship bound for America.

Now the Chinese government is fighting to keep a new religion from taking hold--a faith based on the belief that Peking Man is God. And they dispatch ruthless operatives to find and destroy the world's most priceless fossil.

But the U. S. government has its own team on the hunt. From the mountains of Bavaria to the jungles of Central America and across the vast Pacific, professor Barnaby Finchem, his brilliant protege, Lexy Vaughan, and pilot Steve Macaulay will brave the wrath of nature and of man to win a race against unbridled tyranny....