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The Desert of Glass

By: Michael C. Grumley
Narrated by: Scott Brick
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One of mankind's greatest secrets...has been hiding in plain sight for 3,000 years.

Half a century ago, an aberration was spotted by one of our earliest satellites, and summarily dismissed as a hardware malfunction. But it was no aberration. And no malfunction. It was an accidental glimpse of something extraordinary, and very old.

Mocked for decades, the man who designed the satellite is now dead. With the system's original data firmly in the hands of former NTSB investigator Joe Rickards and anthropologist Angela Reed.

But the data is only to be shared with one other person besides them: a seventy-five-year-old NASA engineer who was part of the original program.

Joe Rickards is convinced it will lead mankind into darkness.

Angela believes it may be the answer the modern world has been longing for.

And former NASA engineer Leonard Townsend hasn't the slightest idea what he's about to get involved in.

To make matters worse, through a strange bedside confession, a journalist thousands of miles away has just learned that someone else already knows about the satellite's 50-year-old discovery.

Because they've been secretly using it for years.

©2021 Michael C. Grumley (P)2021 Michael C. Grumley Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction

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I really like the story and the characters and the whole concept. It’s written really well and the narrator was great. I felt like the story ended a bit too soon though and left lots of questions and answered. I guess I just have to wait for the next book to be released.

Great story but felt like it ended too soon

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I throughly enjoyed listening to this book by one of my favourite authors. The inclusion of many interesting facts once again helps to keep the book believable and opens the mind to new ideas. I am already looking forward to the next book. I also would like to commend Scott Brick for another easy listen. For others who enjoy this I would highly recommend the Breakthrough series.

A great follow-up to the first book

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I found this much stronger than the first story which I thought was a series of nice scenes stitched together with a mildly nonsensical story. The American characters especially the female lead are still rather two dimensional but it was the Egyptian characters that were far the most interesting and the bad guys seemed more menacing and even had a back story. Scott Brick just makes it all flow seamlessly

An interesting follow up

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I have got to hear this book again soon, gotta take both book 1 and 2 in a back to back listen 🤗

I really enjoyed the science and unpredictable course of the storyline.

another great and enjoyable adventure from Michael Grumley.

I can hardly wait to receive the third book in the series.

Thank you Michael.

what a great and interesting story

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After the intriguing and entrancing Breakthrough series, with relatable characters and storylines, the summaries to these books lead you to expect something much more compelling and interesting. The characters and 'facts' seem much less relatable - disjointed and forced. Could not get past the overly melodramatic and histrionic style of narration with these, not even at .85 speed, Keep hearing and seeing the arm pumping cowboy chasing the bad guy in a 50's film, but Mills and Boon style...

Really wanted to get into this writer..

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Every other conversation is along the lines of 'What is it?" "What is what?", "Just go" "Just go where?" etc. The storyline is implausible, tries to keep you guessing by not saying anything. A real shame because I love Scott Brick's narration of many many books - but even he couldn’t make me enjoy this book..

Really irritating book

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