Ghost from the Grand Banks

Ghost from the Grand Banks Synopsis

In this near-future sci-fi novel by the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, two companies competing to raise the Titanic find mystery among the wreckage. Two years before the centennial anniversary of the Titanic's demise, two powerful corporations compete to recover the legendary vessel from the floor of the North Atlantic. With the wreckage split in two, each companyone British and one Japaneseplans to use its spectacular technology to raise one half of the famous ship. But what they find deep beneath the ocean's surface is more than they bargained for. Discovered among the Titanic's remains are six perfectly preserved bodies, including one of a beautiful woman who was not listed among the ship's original passengers. Who was sheand what was her secret? The mission to find out becomes all-consuming and, for some, deadly. This fast-paced tale combines a centuries-old mystery with modern suspense and Clarke's visionary imaginationhere concerned with future technologies, ecological crises, and the mysteries of fractal mathematics.

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