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| View Larger Image | Domain (The Domain Trilogy)
by Steve Alten
| | List Price: | $7.99 |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 230607 | | Studio: | Tor Books | | | Binding: | Mass Market Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 512 | | Publication Date: | June 17, 2002 | | Publisher: | Tor Books |
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Product Description
For 32 years, archaeologist Julius Gabriel has investigated the Mayan calendar, a 2500-year-old enigma that predicts the end of humanity. Julius believes the sites of the ancients, placed all around the globe, represent ancient pieces of a puzzle linked to the salvation of our species.
Miami, September 2012: Psychology Dominique Vazquez is assigned a special patient-Mick Gabriel, a paranoid schizophrenic with a high IQ who attempts to charm her into believing his father's theories of the Apocalypse so he can escape.
Fall Equinox: As it has done for a thousand years, a serpent's shadow appears on the northern balustrade of the Kukulcan Pyramid . . . a rare galactic alignment occurs, and a space transmission reaches Earth.
It is the beginning of the end . . .
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For those who never leave home without a copy of the prophecies of Nostradamus tucked in their hip pocket, Steve Alten's new thriller is just the ticket. Domain focuses its doomsday scenario on an ancient Mayan myth and sets up an intriguing pair of saviors in Dominique Vasquez, a psych grad student who's an intern at a Florida psychiatric facility, and Mick Gabriel, her first patient. Mick, the son of two famous archaeologists, has languished in the Miami asylum for over a decade after attacking the man who publicly humiliated his father and who now happens to be the American secretary of state. The elder Gabriel believed he had unearthed the riddle surrounding the origins of Stonehenge, the Great Pyramid of Giza, the desert glyphs of the Nazca desert, the temples of Angkor Wat, and the Mayan ruins of the Yucatan peninsula--and that the answer pointed inexorably to the doom of humanity. As the winter solstice of 2012 approaches (the day of reckoning prophesied by the myths of the Kukulcan Pyramid at Chichen Itza), Mick enlists Dominique in his effort to save mankind from the apocalypse. Engineering his escape from the hospital, she accompanies him on a desperate search to find his way into the pyramid before the radio message from space, which has already activated a deadly alien weapon buried deep in the Gulf of Mexico, can open a galactic gateway to a world where evil will reign for all eternity. Alten's talent for pacing far outstrips his other writerly gifts. The political subplot is ludicrous, the special effects way over the top, and the villain-in-chief, who happens to be named Borgia, is merely a cartoon. But the story is original enough to pass muster and the past success of similar apocalyptic thrillers bodes well for this one. --Jane Adams |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 155 reviews)
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Amazing Research, Wild Conclusions 
Domain explores ancient intrigue around the Mayan calendar and an eminent doomsday prophecy set to destroy humanity on Winter Solstice 2012. Mick Gabriel has spent his life searching mysteries of advanced precursors to ancient cultures, who established and mysterious landmarks on three continents. It's a chase around the world to stave off end of humanity. It takes a turn similar to "The Abyss" when aliens become the focal point of the ancient intrigue. But Alten ties it all together very expertly, and it ends up to be quite a thrill ride up to the climactic finish.
June 30, 2008 | |
Only a few years before the apocalypse 
This book shares some plot similarities with the new Indiana Jones movie, but it's maddening to get through. Dominique has been assigned to a mental patient named Nick, who believes that the Mayan calendar (which prophecies the end of the world on December 21, 2012) is based in fact and that extraterrestrials are coming to do battle on the Earth. The plot moves quickly but the characters are fairly wooden, especially Nick and Dominique. The book ends with a cliffhanger, which is continued in the next book in Alten's series, "Resurrection."
May 30, 2008 | |
A piece of crap 
At first I was all excited about this book, about something related to Mayan prophecy. However, it turns out to be a mere mumbling by the author about some sort of "research" into the mayan prophecy. It's a total piece of crap. The president shooting himself in front of a teleconference with the Russian president? I can't read it any more. Total waste of my time. The writing style is totally awful as well. Burn and dump the book at once.
April 22, 2008 | |
Unbelievable Good Book! Well written! It's a turnpager!
You don't want to put it down, and that is what I like. Awesome book!
April 01, 2008 | |
I'm a sucker...
I'm a sucker for anything with ancient history and Mayan or Egyptian history in them. This book is great. You really get to know the characters and the blend of ancient lore and modern times is great. Alten is a great writer.
March 04, 2008 | |
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