Temple
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ISBN: 0312266596 / Publisher: St Martins Pr, December 2000
A mysterious Inca idol becomes the focus of an international treasure hunt, and a young linguist is caught up in the conspiracy when he is hired to translate a centuries-old manuscript that holds the key to the idol's location.
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Deep in the jungles of Peru the race of the century is under way to locate a legendary Incan idol. An artifact carved out of a strange kind of stone, the idol could be used as the basis for a terrifying new weapon. The U.S. Army wants it - at any cost - but they are not alone.The only clue to the idol's final resting place lies in a four-hundred-year-old manuscript. Enter Professor William Race, a brilliant young linguist who is unwittingly recruited to translate the manuscript and lead the army team to the artifact. And so begins the mission that will take Race and his companions to a mysterious Andean temple seething with menace and danger. But it is only when the foreboding edifice is opened that Race and his team discover that they have broken a golden rule: Some doors are meant to remain closed.
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