Publisher's Synopsis
"Crammed with action and suspense." USA TODAY When Rip Cantrell, a seismic surveyor in the Sahara, finds a piece of metal apparently entombed in the sandstone, he and his colleagues soon uncover a vessel that has been resting there for one hundred and forty thousand years. Their discovery doesn't remain a secret for long. A US Air Force UFO investigation team arrives just minutes before a team sent by an Australian billionaire who wants to steal the ship's secrets. The Libyan military arrives too. Meanwhile, with the help of beautiful ex-Air Force test pilot Charley Pine, Rip figures out how the flight systems might work. Perhaps there is one way to get this amazing device from those who would possess it...