Charles Tucker Libri

The German astronomer, Wolfgang Gleissberg, analysed sunspot activity and discovered a life threatening sun cycle eruption every one hundred years reoccurring regularly over the last three thousand years.Severe radiation from the sun's Gleissberg Centennial Mass Eruption is due to hit the Earth and planets in year 2045.Destruction of power supplies and dependant electrical machines is a certain outcome. Satnavs will burn up.The US president has demanded that man lands on Mars by 2045, despite warnings that the rocket powered mission will be fatal.Separately, British and French engineers have built nuclear fusion powered spacecraft to cut the Mars rocket journey time from eight months to five days.British test flights have suffered alien interference originating from the Langrange Points stationery on the Earth's orbit, but a test flight to the Martian orbit was successful.In 2045 the sun's surface erupts, devastating all electrical power supplies, cables, machines, satellites and all renewable wind and solar generators.The Earth's crust weakens. Volcanoes explode. Ash covers the Earth. Food, water and transport cease.The Gleissberg Extinction has begun.

To an onlooker it appeared to be just a gnarled old stick. That is until it vibrated when it neared an old manor or priory site, releasing centuries old vibes stored in the stones.To Henri Lefevre, an imaginative savant student in Paris, the Bayeaux Tapestry came alive. He believed he could achieve his dream to re-enact history, appreciating the help of the divine powers of the gnarled old stick that transcended centuries, an immortal stick that never died.When he and the divining stick found the site of Philberd's Manor where the Magna Carta was reputedly drafted Henri knew he could fulfil his dream. Living in a tiny room working by candle light night and day, drafting scripts letter by letter, the gnarled old stick by his side he produced a corrected copy of the Magna Carta.An amazing story of how the Magna Carta was drafted and approved and signed by King John in 1215.

THE BODYis washed up on a Cornish beach, encased in a diamond-hard, glass-smooth cocoon, perfectly preserved, with open, staring eyes.THE SCIENTISTmust solve the mystery of Stone Man, and the other victims of what he suspects is a mutated Pinna nobilis, or king mussel.THE MYTHOLOGYof the ancient land of Lyonnesse collides with Norse legend.TIMEis running out, for the victims and perhaps even the human race.