Singularity
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- Artist: Bill DeSmedt
- Copyright: Some rights reserved, 2004-2005.
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June 30th, 1908, a forty-megaton explosion obliterates a swath of ancient Siberian forest half the size of the state of Rhode Island, yet leaves behind not a trace of the object that caused it. What was it? A meteor? A comet? An alien spacecraft in r
New York City, present day. Marianna Bonaventure, rookie field agent for the supersecret agency known as CROM, tries to nail the shadowy Grishin Enterprises International conglomerate for trafficking in weapons of mass destruction research, and nearl
Arkady Grishin, billionaire chairman of Grishin Enterprises International, has a secret agenda of his own where the Tunguska Event is concerned - a secret his minions are only too willing to kill for.
Marianna pins her hopes of building a case against Grishin on a man with a past, an unconventional analyst for the Archon Consulting Group named Jonathan Knox. Meanwhile, half a world away, maverick cosmologist Jack Adler triesprove that the true cau
Marianna drags Jon Knox into her investigation against his will, and gets more than she bargained for.
As Jonathan Knox makes some unusual preparations for his morning meeting, onthe far side of the planet Jack Adler toils to the top of a sacred mountain,to a meeting with an ancient holy man who can teach him the secret of theTunguska Event and, just
Knox learns more than he ever wanted to know about CROM's secret inner workings -- and about how his own checkered past fits into their undercover investigation of Grishin Enterprises.
Guided by an aged shaman's chants, Jack Adler reconstructs theaftermath of the Tunguska Event, and the evidence for a tiny black holeas the culprit. And all the while, Grishin's hired killer Yuri isclosing in on his next target -- Jack himself.
When Marianna fails at sweettalking Knox into joining CROM'santi-Grishin taskforce, her boss Pete Aristos puts the pressure on,only to have that backfire too -- big time!
Plagued by insomnia, Jack Adler wrestles late into the night with balky equipment and his own doubts -- which means he is there to witness it when his primordial black hole goes flashing across his screens. Is it the greatest discovery of all time, o
Jonathan Knox wanders the halls of the museum and the corridors of his own memories, pondering whether to help CROM, so lost in thought that he fails to notice he's got company.
Jack Adler's academic adversaries seek to quash his research via bureaucratic maneuvering. GEI hitman Yuri, however, favors the direct approach.
Marianna manages to extricate Knox from the clutches of Russian State Security in the nick of time. But the rescue comes with strings attached ...