Impact Leopold A. Bernstein is making his way east--with

is making his way east--with new allies who may not be the ragtag band they seem

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but now he mainly reads detective novels while his family slide into genteel poverty

Ben longs for the father he has never known

Impact Leopold A. Bernstein is making his way east--withWyman Ford is tapped for a secret expedition to Cambodia to locate the source of strangely beautiful gemstones that do not appear to be of this world. A brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast and two young women borrow a boat and set out for a distant island to find the impact crater. A scientist at the National Propulsion Facility discovers an inexplicable source of gamma rays in the outer Solar System. He is found decapitated, the data missing.