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PRINTING HISTORY

Berkley trade paperback edition / October 2004

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cussler, Clive.

Sacred stone / Clive Cussler and Craig Dirgo.-Berkley trade pbk. ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-425-19848-0 (pbk.)

1. Terrorism-Prevention-Fiction. 2. Relics-Fiction. I. Dirgo, Craig. II. Title.

PS3553.U75S33 2004

813'.54-dc22 2004050206

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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CAST OF CHARACTERS

JUAN CABRILLO: Chairman of the Corporation

MAX HANLEY: President of the Corporation

RICHARD TRUITT: Vice President of the Corporation

THE CORPORATION TEAM (OPERATIVES) (In alphabetic order)

GEORGE ADAMS: Helicopter Pilot

RICK BARRETT: Assistant Chef

MONICA CRABTREE: Supply and Logistics Coordinator

CARL GANNON: General Operations

CHUCK "TINY" GUNDERSON: Chief Pilot Fixed-Wing

MICHAEL HALPERT: Finance and Accounting

CLIFF HORNSBY: General Operations

JULIA HUXLEY: Medical Officer

PETE JONES: General Operations

HALI KASIM: General Operations

LARRY KING: Sniper

FRANKLIN LINCOLN: General Operations

BOB MEADOWS: General Operations

JUDY MICHAELS: Pilot

MARK MURPHY: General Operations

2 CAST OF CHARACTERS

KEVIN NIXON: Magic Shop Specialist

TRACY PILSTON: Pilot

SAM PRYOR: Propulsion Engineer

GUNTHER REINHOLT: Propulsion Engineer

TOM REYES: General Operations

LINDA ROSS: Security and Surveillance/General Operations

EDDIE SENG: Director of Shore Operations/General Operations

ERIC STONE: Control Room Operator/General Operations

THE OTHERS

LANGSTON OVERHOLT IV: CIA officer who hires the Corporation

HALIFAX HICKMAN: Billionaire industrialist

CHRIS HUNT: U.S. Army officer killed in Afghanistan MICHELLE HUNT: Mother of Chris

ERIC THE RED: Legendary explorer

THE EMIR OF QATAR: Leader of the country of Qatar

JOHN ACKERMAN: Archaeologist who locates the meteorite in Greenland

CLAY HUGHES: Assassin hired to recover the Greenland meteorite

PIETER VANDERWALD: South African death merchant