Cauldron - Softcover

Forbes, Colin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330352091 ISBN 13: 9780330352093

Publisher: Pan Books, 2000

Synopsis

`There are many cauldrons seething in the world today but this one is a monster...' It started in California. A body washed ashore is found by Paula Grey. Weeks later, Bob Newman discovers a woman's body floating into the coast of Cornwall. Shown a photograph, Paula is stunned to realise it is the same woman she hauled out of the Pacific, six thousand miles away. Tweed senses a worldwide menace, tracks Vincent Bernard Moloch, creator of AMBECO, largest conglomerate on the planet. Why have strange domes appeared, overlooking the ocean off California? Who is `Vanity' Richmond, the woman with no identity, companion to Moloch? What links expatriates in California to a similar community in Cornwall? A tremor of panic shatters London, Washington. Tweed encounters the formidable Mrs Benyon, Joel Brand, an Armenian, `Vanity' Richmond and Linda Standish, private investigator. One is murdered by a mysterious exterminator, The Accountant. The temp accelerates - Paula and Newman investigate AMBECO. Crisis explodes into titanic catastrophe - part of a continent collapses into the ocean. The final battle detonates in Cornwall.

About this title

Synopsis:

Paula Grey and Bob Newman discover a woman's body floating on the Californian coast, her identity unknown. At the same time, a ship disappears into the fog. Sensing an impending catastrophe, Tweed hurtles across the globe, as a continent begins to slide into the ocean.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pan Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0330352091
• ISBN 13: 9780330352093
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 484