The Lost Ship – The Powers That Be – Book Two

By John Hopkins

An ancient Gray race time travels to the present after a humiliating Cretaceous-era colonization failure, seeking to recover and detonate a world-killer superweapon abandoned on a 90-million-year-old shipwreck lost to time in what is now the Amazon's vast unexplored reaches.
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Book Two in The Powers That Be Trilogy, THE LOST SHIP, immerses readers in the day-after chaos, carnage, and confusion following the near-apocalyptic ending of THE GOLDEN ELLIPSE.
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An offer they can't refuse: Rachel and Owen Haig convalesce in a decimated Cairo hospital following their death-defying heroism beneath the Giza Plateau, contending with unwanted notoriety and a job proposal from The Powers That Be.
The fourth kind: A battlecruiser from the time-traveling Gray's fleet seizes Agent Flynn's lunar-bound medevac, imprisoning the crew in a mind-bending nightmare where startling revelations materialize from the terrifying shadows.
Never let a disaster go to waste: Griffin Pike, a megalomaniacal tech mogul, schemes to project international anger onto the only entity athwart his new world order master plan: The Powers That Be. Leaving nothing to chance, Pike's failsafe manifests in cryptic clues within the ink-splotched pages of a worn leather-bound notebook leading to a doomsday device concealed deep in the Amazon.
Lost worlds: Artemus Pennywell, the ageless CEO, parries post-invasion gut punches, overseeing PTB relief efforts alongside his quintessential replicant, Andrew. With Pike's cutthroat mercenaries—and the vengeful Grays—in hot pursuit of the lost ship, he dispatches eccentric scientist Richard King and new PTB agents Rachel and Owen on a perilous Amazon expedition to secure the prehistoric payload. Trekking through unexplored jungles teeming with exotic dangers, paths collide on a treacherous descent into a primeval rift valley safeguarded by a ghostly cannibal tribe.

THE LOST SHIP twists and turns through post-invasion ruins, culminating in a supernatural confrontation deep in the heart of the unforgiving Amazon wilderness where fates are sealed, and humanity's destiny illuminates in a cerulean glow.

Stay tuned for THE BLUE SPARK, the epic conclusion to The Powers That Be Trilogy.