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Ruins
By Kevin J. Anderson
Price: R.R.P. $10.95 (paperback)
No. of Pages: 291 (hardback)
Publisher: Harper Prism (A division of HarperCollins)
ISBN: 0-00-648253-8
Cover blurb:
From the Official Site [and hardcover dust jacket]
A well-connected American archaeologist, Cassandra
Rubicon, disappears while exploring the lost Mayan city of
Xitaclan--and an FBI team is flown to the Yucatán jungles to
investigate.
Not an ordinary FBI team. Agents Fox Mulder and Dana
Scully are investigators assigned to the X-Files, the strange
and inexplicable cases the FBI wants to keep hidden from
the scrutiny of the press and the public...the cases involving
the paranormal, the supernatural,--and possibly, the
extraterrestrial.
Based on a mysterious jade artifact recovered from the
crumbling ruins, as well as ominous legends whispered by superstitious natives, Mulder decides
there may be more to this case than simply a missing team of scientists--namely ancient curses,
blood sacrifices, and deadly reptilian monsters lost in the jungles since before history.
Scully is, as always, more skeptical. Her priority is to keep an eye on her partner, trying to provide
logical explanations for Mulder's unorthodox speculations.
Unbeknownst to the two FBI agents, the lost city of Xitaclan is the scene of an impending
three-way brush war between Central American drug lords, international smugglers who deal in
looted Mayan artifacts, and a covert U.S. military commando team that has been sent in to
investigate, and destroy, a strange electronic signal received from beneath the ruins--a signal
aimed upward, at the stars!
Accompanied by the father of the missing Cassandra Rubicon, Mulder and Scully must unravel the
secret of Xitaclan and discover what has become of the lost archaeology team before these
opposing forces converge on the forgotten ruins...and unleash a power that nothing on Earth can
contain.
Ruins is the most ambitious and exciting X-Files novel to date, as Mulder and Scully race to
unearth an ancient mystery with eerie and prophetic consequences for today's world, and the future.
The truth is out there--but can they bring it home to a skeptical world?
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