Hello all, I was wondering if somewhere out there could help me with something that's been bugging me for months. There's a novel that I remember hearing when I was younger (when we went on vacation my parents would get books on tape) and I want to read it now but I cannot remember the title or the author, only a few bits and pieces of the book.
The book started by describing a man who was sent to watch the eruption of Krakatoa, although at the time he didn't know the volcano would erupt. He received a message and a book from an order of monks and an envelope containing a location and date. He was to describe what he saw in the book and then pass it along to his next contact. After doing so he looks at the next time/date envelope which merely says "April 18, 1906 San Francisco", the date of the famous earthquake.
Jump to the present and you have this mining guy and some other miners who are hired to do a secret mining job for the military in the desert. It turns into a competition by the main character (who's name I can't remember) and another guy who turns out to a bad guy to see who can remove the most rock with the least amount of explosives to get to the target. After the bad guy almost kills the main character by trying to blow him up with extra explosives he planted in the mineshaft they finally drill into an underground water cavern where there's a military submarine. It turns out that the military invented a teleportation device (ala the Philadelphia experiment) that went heywire and stranded the submarine in the desert hundreds of feet blow bedrock.
Flash to a group of monks who run a doomsday clock that predicts when disasters will happen. The old monks are overthrown by the son of the former leader and are going to use the machine for some nefarious purpose. The sister of this guy goes and find someone who can help her stop her brother, and it turns out to be the said miner from above. They end up in Santorini and precede to watch the island blow itself apart. This shows that the machine works and it predicts the La Palma volcano will erupt, collapsing the island into the Atlantic and causing a massive tsunami that will destroy the east coast of the US.
That's as far as we got before my parents turned it off and returned it to the library at the end of the trip.
I might be wrong, and maybe this book doesn't exist, but the fact that there MIGHT be a book out there that has a crazy order of monks who protect a doomsday predicting machine that's gone heywire because the military is teleporting submarines is just too good to pass up.
Help anyone? The only other thing I know is that book would have been published before or around 2004/2003.
The book started by describing a man who was sent to watch the eruption of Krakatoa, although at the time he didn't know the volcano would erupt. He received a message and a book from an order of monks and an envelope containing a location and date. He was to describe what he saw in the book and then pass it along to his next contact. After doing so he looks at the next time/date envelope which merely says "April 18, 1906 San Francisco", the date of the famous earthquake.
Jump to the present and you have this mining guy and some other miners who are hired to do a secret mining job for the military in the desert. It turns into a competition by the main character (who's name I can't remember) and another guy who turns out to a bad guy to see who can remove the most rock with the least amount of explosives to get to the target. After the bad guy almost kills the main character by trying to blow him up with extra explosives he planted in the mineshaft they finally drill into an underground water cavern where there's a military submarine. It turns out that the military invented a teleportation device (ala the Philadelphia experiment) that went heywire and stranded the submarine in the desert hundreds of feet blow bedrock.
Flash to a group of monks who run a doomsday clock that predicts when disasters will happen. The old monks are overthrown by the son of the former leader and are going to use the machine for some nefarious purpose. The sister of this guy goes and find someone who can help her stop her brother, and it turns out to be the said miner from above. They end up in Santorini and precede to watch the island blow itself apart. This shows that the machine works and it predicts the La Palma volcano will erupt, collapsing the island into the Atlantic and causing a massive tsunami that will destroy the east coast of the US.
That's as far as we got before my parents turned it off and returned it to the library at the end of the trip.
I might be wrong, and maybe this book doesn't exist, but the fact that there MIGHT be a book out there that has a crazy order of monks who protect a doomsday predicting machine that's gone heywire because the military is teleporting submarines is just too good to pass up.
Help anyone? The only other thing I know is that book would have been published before or around 2004/2003.
