12.21: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 01240012B54732
English Summary/英文概要： From the co-author of the two-million copy mega-bestseller The Rule of Four comes a riveting thriller with a brilliant premise based on the 2012 apocalypse phenomenon—perfect for readers of Steve Berry, Preston and Child, and Dan Brown.
For decades, December 21, 2012, has been a touchstone for doomsayers worldwide. It is the date, they claim, when the ancient Maya calendar predicts the world will end.
In Los Angeles, two weeks before, all is calm. Dr. Gabriel Stanton takes his usual morning bike ride, drops off the dog with his ex-wife, and heads to the lab where he studies incurable prion diseases for the CDC. His first phone call is from a hospital resident who has an urgent case she thinks he needs to see. Meanwhile, Chel Manu, a Guatemalan American researcher at the Getty Museum, is interrupted by a desperate, unwelcome visitor from the black market antiquities trade who thrusts a duffel bag into her hands.
By the end of the day, Stanton, the foremost expert on some of the rarest infections in the world, is grappling with a patient whose every symptom confounds and terrifies him. And Chel, the brightest young star in the field of Maya studies, has possession of an illegal artifact that has miraculously survived the centuries intact: a priceless codex from a lost city of her ancestors. This extraordinary record, written in secret by a royal scribe, seems to hold the answer to her life’s work and to one of history’s great riddles: why the Maya kingdoms vanished overnight. Suddenly it seems that our own civilization might suffer this same fate.
With only days remaining until December 21, 2012, Stanton and Chel must join forces before time runs out.
Chinese Summary/中文概要：
最新發現的傳染病VFI將蔓延全球
VFI的症狀包括：失眠、大量出汗、
心臟紊亂、瞳孔縮小、逐漸感覺不到光亮
若您有如上症狀，請不要再觸碰眼睛，
馬上到醫院檢查，
或者找傳染病控制中心的加布裡埃爾•斯坦頓教授
幾十年來2012年12月21日都成為人們茶餘飯後的談資，各種占卜、算卦、預言者都堅信，這是古代瑪雅人預言的“世界末日”。
“世界末日”的兩周之前，洛杉磯，一切正常
加布裡埃爾•斯坦頓教授像往常一樣騎著自行車將狗狗帶到前妻家裡，然後騎車到疾病控制中心的實驗室研究無可救藥的朊病毒引起的疾病。當天他收到的第一通電話來自一位住院醫生，她覺得加布裡埃爾•斯坦頓教授應該來看一下她手裡的這宗緊急的案子。
同時，格迪博物館有位不請自來的客人，美籍瓜地馬拉研究員Chel Manu被一個古董黑市的貿易商多次騷擾。
這天末了，研究罕見疾病的頂級教授斯坦頓教授正和一個病人扭打在一起，這個病人的所有病症都讓他驚恐不已。
瑪雅文化研究領域的最聰明的新星Chel卻收到了一件非法買賣的古董，一件經過幾個世紀仍然完好無損的古董：一本歸屬于她祖先的失落的城市的無價藥典。這本曼妙絕倫的藥典是由皇家書記員秘密書寫的，似乎蘊藏著有關她生命的答案和歷史上最大迷案的答案：為什麼瑪雅王朝會一夜間突然消失不見？難道我們的文明也會遭受這個命運？
就在12月21日即將到來之時，Stanton 和 Chel必須聯合起來做些什麼拯救世界。(Celia)
Awards/获奖情况：
“自Michael Crichton以來最棒的醫學類驚悚小說。12.21帶領我們從高端神經科學領域到古老瑪雅聞名的謎語，還有我們岌岌可危的現代文明。”——Vince Flynn
“12.21是本情節豐富、傑出的高端驚悚小說。融合最前端的科學知識和古代預言，讓你想一口氣讀到底，”
——Douglas Preston, 暢銷小說《The Monster of Florence》的作者
“故事發展快速的一本小說。Thomason展示了科學和古代瑪雅人生活方式的魅力。同時他還極有技巧地串聯起所有情節，每個時間點都會有要事發生。”——Kirkus Review
“精彩又真實，真實得令人害怕。所有的情節都完美地配合在一起。超愛這本書，一定會看完為止。”
——紐約時報暢銷小說《The Informationist》作者Taylor Stevens
“情節流暢、懸疑感十足。喜歡Michael Crichton的讀者這下有福了！”——《出版商週刊》
Advance praise for 12.21
“The most exciting novel of its kind since the days of Michael Crichton, 12.21 takes us from the frontiers of modern neuroscience to the riddles of ancient Maya texts, with nothing less than the future of our civilization at stake.”---Vince Flynn
About the Author/作者介绍： 美國作者兼製作人Dustin Thomason 2004年合著了在《紐約時報》暢銷榜單上維持六周之久的小說《The Rule of Four》此書是國家和國際上屈指可數的暢銷書，已被翻譯成25種語言，已在世界各國熱銷四百萬冊，成為十年來銷售量最好的處女作。
2006年他作為ABC電視臺的執行製作人，製作了各種熱播電視劇，比如福克斯的《別對我說謊》。
Dustion的第二本小說《12.21》到2012年八月已經被翻譯成20種語言，也是《紐約時報》和國際市場上的暢銷小說。
Dustin在哈佛獲得人類學學士學位，隨後在哥倫比亞大學獲得碩士和工商管理碩士學位。現在他居住在加利福尼亞州的洛杉磯。
Dustin Thomason attended Harvard University, where he studied anthropology and medicine. He won the Hoopes Prize for undergraduate writing, and graduated in 1998. Thomason also received his M.D. and MBA from Columbia University in 2003.
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