CIA listening posts have detected evidence of an extraordinary operation by cosmonauts of the resurgent and aggressive Russian regime - a plan to deflect a giant asteroid into a collision course with the United States. The result would be unimaginable devastation, and the West's top astrophysicists are secretly assembled to try and find a way of averting total disaster. But the key to finding the asteroid is a suprising one - its course was predicted in an obscure Renaissance manuscript, the only copy of which has now gone mysteriously missing...
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Combining the intrigue of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose with the excitement of a high-tech disaster thriller, Nemesis is the most original and suspenseful novel of the year.
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