Book by Chamberlain, Marshall

A COMBOQUAKE RAKES THE MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE. A FIFTEEN MILE RIFT RIPS ACROSS AN ICELANDIC ICE CAP. A DISSECTED CAVE HOLDS MYSTERIOUS ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY. John Henry Morgan, ex-Marine, Director of the United Nation's Institute for the Study of Unusual Phenomena, returns from the devastating attack on ISUP's Mountain project in Belize only to be cast into the aftermath of the Comboquake and the dangers of the rift. Morgan and key ISUP staff mount an expedition to the rift and discover a cavern occupied one hundred and eighty thousand years ago, containing a perfectly preserved high-tech habitat and a traveling machine operated by unknown scientific principles. The benign scientific expedition to study the cave and its contents encounters deceit and violence as nations and terrorist groups ferret out the existence and significance of the discoveries, and mount sophisticated operations to acquire technological treasures for their own purposes. ISUP finds itself at the convergence of clandestine assault from several fronts. Violence escalates. Lives become expendable - a scenario that has plagued the human race through the chronicles of time. Frantic action: Prague, London, New York, Washington, D.C., Libya, France, Spain, China, Iceland. Across oceans and air lanes, factions grapple for power. Survival for the ISUP scientists and preservation of new technologies for the benefit of humanity lie in choices of whom to trust.

The Mountain Place of Knowledge and The Ice Cap and the Rift are tense, driving thrillers reminiscent of the Indian Jones movies, books by Nelson DeMille, and James Rollin’s Sigma Force. Foreword Reviews 1st Place Award Winning Author, Marshall Chamberlain, gives us raging adventures into plausible reality. THE MOUNTAIN PLACE OF KNOWLEDGE •A PLACE OF KNOWLEDGE INSIDE A BELIZEAN MOUNTAIN •A SENTINEL GUARDS THE ENTRANCE •A SCEPTER INSTRUMENT THAT HEALS AND DESTROYS •A JEWELED BALL OF BLUE DEATH •A RACE TO PRESERVE ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY "Masterful blend of reality with cutting edge science fiction . . . a spell-binding page turner." \—Lee Top 1% GoodReads Reviewer The burial chamber of a revered Mayan sorceress is uncovered atop a sacrificial pyramid at the Caracol ruins in western Belize. Translation of ancient metallic scrolls and a 1100-year-old codex found in the chamber reveal the existence of a secret entrance to the inside of a mountain. The scrolls refer to the interior as Trinium, the Place of Knowledge, and explain its creation by an advanced civilization. "…TECHNO THRILLER...KEEPING YOU TURNING THE PAGES FEVERISHLY…." —Hilary Hemingway A flash of mysterious blue light brings death to a U.N. official, and investigators are sent to Belize to discover the source and locate the secret mountain entrance. What they discover inside is bizarre and unimaginable; mental prodding guides them to the Place of Seeing for the most shocking experience of their lives “…KICK-START IMPRESSIONS INFUSE THE BOOK WITH LIFE, PROPELLING THE READER THROUGH ITS PAGES...LOVERS OF THE INDIANA JONES MOVIES WILL ENJOY THE WORK OF THIS PROMISING AUTHOR.” —Clarion Reviews THE ICE CAP AND THE RIFT • A COMBOQUAKE RAKES THE TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED MILE ATLANTIC RIDGE • A FIFTEEN-MILE LONG RIFT IS TORN ACROSS ICELAND'S LARGEST ICE CAP • SATELLITE IMAGERY REVEALS A LARGE CAVERN DOWN THE RAGGED CREVASSE • THERE ARE FROZEN OBJECTS AND STRUCTURES THAT SHOULDN'T BE THERE “I love ‘what if’ tales laced with a touch of sci-fi…they stimulate the imagination…forcing us to not only question reality, but grapple with difficult answers. That’s Marshall Chamberlain’s specialty and he does it with…style and finesse.”―Steve Berry, New York Times Best Selling Author The UN's Institute for the Study of Unusual Phenomena (ISUP), led by its new director, John Henry Morgan, geologist, ex-marine, is cast into the aftermath of the largest single shift ever recorded in the Earth's crust. ISUP's benign scientific expedition to study the origin and contents of the rift cavern turns dangerous and chaotic when it's discovered it was occupied 180,000 years ago and contains a perfectly preserved hi-tech habitat, complete with functional travel vehicles. Ferreting out the existence and significance of the discoveries, nations and terrorists mount sophisticated operations to acquire technological treasures for their own purposes. The ISUP organization finds itself at the convergence of clandestine assault from several fronts. Acts of deceit and violence escalate into brutality. Lives are expendable. Frantic action streams across the globe, crossing oceans and Prague; London; New York; Washington, D.C.; Libya; France; Spain; Iceland; China. The Ice Cap and the Rift, is a spellbinding adventure, scientifically mysterious and metaphysically familiar. Breaking new ground at the speed of light, stalwart characters meet avarice and violence head-on as Chamberlain weaves the second installment in the Ancestor Series of adventure-thrillers.