THE CRYSTAL SKULL

Book ID/图书代码： 06815007B15409

English Summary/英文概要： 21.12.12. The date is set. Time is running out.

Hidden for four centuries, a crystal skull of exquisite beauty has just been found by Stella Cody, who also inherits its legacy of dark secrets, intrigue and murder. Facing an increasingly implacable enemy, Stella and her lover, Kit, struggle to crack the code that hides the skull’s intended resting place.

Their search takes them from the intellectual rigour of Cambridge University to the untamed wildness of England’s prehistoric stone circles.

But time is against them, and they have only days – hours – left to uncover the secret that may yet save the world.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 「史黛拉，這僅僅是一塊石頭而已，不值得妳為它而死吧？」
事實上，這不是一塊普通的石頭，是一塊像人形頭骨的藍水晶，瑪雅人用它防止世界末日來臨。這塊神奇的藍寶石從誕生起，成了每個世代追逐的目標。有些人想得到它，有些人想摧毀它，為了它，人彼此互相殘殺。隨著它上一任主人歐文去世，關於它的下落漸漸消聲匿跡。史黛拉無意中發現它，成為它的新主人，但她也不能豁免地開始遭到各種莫明其妙的追捕。
瑪雅有一個預言：如果現存於世的13塊頭骨不能聚在一起， 2012年12月21日將是地球末日。地球已經遭遇過四次毀滅，分別由於洪水、大火、地震和暴風雨，而第五次地球毀滅將是人類自己的過失。只有一個方法可以避免世界末日的到來，答案就在歐文的日記中。
為了解開世紀之迷，斯特拉和她的同伴凱特展開了漫長而艱鉅的探索之旅，從劍橋大學嚴格的學科到英國史前的巨石陣所在荒原…。

Awards/获奖情况：Original, scary, rooted in the past but as current as tomorrow’s nightmare. An enthralling read.---Lee Child

Combines the adrenaline of a crime narrative with the detail of a historical saga … A rollicking adventure story.---Scotland on Sunday

Scott has done her research and her novel is so engaging, even plausible, that you, too, will be panting with the desperate excitement of it all.---DAILY MAIL

What a book! The Crystal Skull has plenty of action and romance and will keep you fascinated until the last page...I couldn’t put it down.---PREDICITION MAGAZINE, April 2008

About the Author/作者介绍： Born and brought up in Scotland, Manda Scott is a practising vet. Her first novel, HEN’S TEETH, was shortlisted for the 1997 Orange Prize alongside Annie Proulx, Margaret Atwood and Anne Michaels.
作者嫚達`史考特在蘇格蘭出生和受教育。她的第一本小說《母雞的牙齒》（Hen’s Teeth）入圍1997年橘子獎的決選（shortlisted for Orange Prize）當年與安妮．普露的《斷背山》、瑪格莉特．愛特伍德的《雙面葛蕾斯》並列。嫚達目前是執業的專業獸醫外科醫生。《惡行天下》是她的第一本驚悚小說。

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