The Doomsday Conspiracy

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'The witnesses standing at the edge of the field were staring in horrified silence, too stunned to speak. The scene that lay before them was grotesque, a primeval nightmare '
And in Forte Meade, Maryland, Operation Doomsday is activated. Vietnam veteran Robert Bellamy of US Naval Intelligence, a disillusioned man recovering from a broken marriage, is dispatched on a top secret mission. A weather balloon carrying sensitive military information has crashed in Switzerland. Although the contents have been rescued, Bellamy must locate the ten witnesses to the incident, so that they can be sworn to secrecy.
However, as he conducts his search, Bellamy begins to suspect that he, too, is being hunted, and by an unknown lethal force that what he was told about the balloon is only one part of an almost unbelievable happening.
From Washington to Zürich, Rome and Paris, the story unfolds to reveal Bellamy's past - why thé woman he loves the most cannot return his love, why his friends... Tovább

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'The witnesses standing at the edge of the field were staring in horrified silence, too stunned to speak. The scene that lay before them was grotesque, a primeval nightmare '
And in Forte Meade, Maryland, Operation Doomsday is activated. Vietnam veteran Robert Bellamy of US Naval Intelligence, a disillusioned man recovering from a broken marriage, is dispatched on a top secret mission. A weather balloon carrying sensitive military information has crashed in Switzerland. Although the contents have been rescued, Bellamy must locate the ten witnesses to the incident, so that they can be sworn to secrecy.
However, as he conducts his search, Bellamy begins to suspect that he, too, is being hunted, and by an unknown lethal force that what he was told about the balloon is only one part of an almost unbelievable happening.
From Washington to Zürich, Rome and Paris, the story unfolds to reveal Bellamy's past - why thé woman he loves the most cannot return his love, why his friends become his deadly enemies, and why the world must never learn the incredible secret hidden on the Swiss Alps.
Sidney Sheldon, one of the world's master storytellers, has never written to greater purpose or with more devastatingly topical effect.
Sidney Sheldon is the author of The Other Side of Midnight, A Stranger in the Mirror, Bloodline, Rage of Angels, Master of the Game, If Tomorrow Comes, Windmills of the Gods, The Sands of Time and Memories of Midnight, all Number One international bestsellers. His first book. The Naked Face, was acclaimed by the New York Times as 'the best first mystery novel of the year'. Mr Sheldon has won a Tony award for Broadway's Redhead and an Academy Award for The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer. Rage of Angels, Master of the Game and Windmills of the Gods have been made into highly successful television mini-series.
He has written the screenplays for twenty-three motion pictures, including Easter Parade (with Judy Garland) and Annie Get Your Gun. He also created four long-running television series, including Hart to Hart and I Dream of Jeannie, which he produced and directed. Sidney Sheldon lives in southern California. Vissza