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Juanita might have rested undisturbed for centuries more had it not been for the rumblings of a nearby volcano. For the past five years it has spewed ash over Mount Ampato, melting its snowcap and causing the ground to shift. The movement caused Juanita's ceremonial platform to collapse, and she literally tumbled off. Zarate had to rappel down a ravine to retrieve gold and silver statues, festooned with feathers, that were part of the traditional offering to the gods. Reinhard had scaled dozens of Andean peaks over the past 15 years searching for just such a treasure...
...mind is needed even if it is haunted and unraveling. Subplots involve a forlorn love interest and the burrowings of a suspected mole, but the real story, and a good one, is whether Jericho can track Enigma through the deep space of his own brain before he melts to ash. Great mathematical ability remains a snark that can't really be hunted in a novel, but the author provides what is possible, the illusion of understanding as an unearthly mind reaches for patterns in a mist of numbers...
...East African Rift Valley. An 1,800-mile-long gash in the surface of the earth, the Rift has yielded many important clues to early human history, because of its unique geology. Layers of sediment preserved animal specimens, while the volcanic eruptions that periodically shook the valley produced ash and lava whose radioactive elements make the fossils easy to date. Probably the most famous inhabitant of the valley was the diminutive creature known as Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), whose fossil skeleton was discovered in 1974 and who lived more than 3 million years...
...past five months, Jerome Ash has spent every weekday at Training Inc. in hopes of breaking into what used to be known as the pink-collar ghetto of receptionists, typists and filing clerks. He spends game nights at Indianapolis' Market Square Arena, selling frozen drinks on a 15% commission. On his first night, during a hockey game, he made...
Along with 40 classmates, Ash spent three weeks in a simulated office, practicing how to answer the phone, send a fax, file a letter. His goal: a $7-an-hour job. "I want an office job dealing with the public." His dream? That one day, with a steady job and a nest egg, he will actually take a vacation...