Sixteen-year olds Harlowe Pylott and Matt Riverstone are bodysurfing the narliest waves of the new century when their fun is interrupted by a yacht capsizing off the Newport coast. After rescuing the famous movie star Simon Bolt and the half-alien socialite Leucadia Mars from certain death, Fate sends them on the greatest ride of their lives. Robobs and the undog are only the beginning! Dakadude killers have swooped down from the heavens looking for the galaxy's most powerful weapon: an ancient Gamadin spaceship named Millawanda. If the Daks cannot capture Millawanda, they will kill her while she is still weak and unprotected ... along with the Earth and anyone else who gets in their way.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With nearly 50 million books sold worldwide, Nelson DeMille is "a true master." - Dan Brown He is a good man, a brilliant corporate executive, an honest, handsome family man admired by men and desired by women. But sixteen years ago Ben Tyson was a lieutenant in Vietnam. There, in 1968, the men under his command committed a murderous atrocity-and together swore never to tell the world what they had done. Not the press, army justice, and the events he tried to forget have caught up with Ben Tyson. His family, his career, and his personal sense of honor hang in the balance. And only one woman can reveal the truth of his past -- and set him free.

Volume 6 in the Gamadin Book Series saga. After their harrowing journey to the galactic core, the Gamadin are returning to Earth. Millawanda is fixed. She's even more beautiful, powerful, and cooler than when she was first commissioned 17,000 years ago! Wiz has taken Cheesa and Maa Dev back to Nod. Simon has a new Julian Starr sci-fi script, and Riverstone has a part in it. All Harlowe wants to do is surf, that is, if Lu will let him. But when they drop out of hyperspace, Saturn is out of position, and the Earth is eleven years out of whack. President Delmonte has been impeached, replaced by President for Life, Nootzy Shame, Tinker and Dodger are missing, cash is no longer accepted, economic chaos is everywhere, the world is on the brink of thermonuclear war, and The Church believes the saucer is a Wild Strain of beings who have come to destroy the human race! And they haven't even landed yet!

The Fate of the Galaxy now rests with a couple of California surfers! Sixteen-year-olds Harlowe Pylott andMatt Riverstone ditched school to bodysurf the killer waves at the Wedge when their fun is interrupted by a yacht capsizing from rogue wave. After rescuing the famous movie star, Simon Bolt, and the half-alien socialite, Leucadia Mars, from certain death, Fate, unbeknowst to the boys, has sent them on the most perilous ride of their lives. Robobs and the undog are only the beginning. Dakadude alien killers and black beasts have swooped down from the heavens looking for the galaxy's most powerful weapon: an ancient Gamadin spaceship named Millawanda. If the Daks cannot capture Her, they will kill her while she is still weak and unprotected . . . along with the Earth and anyone else who gets in their way! If you think finding an ancient spaceship in the desert is cool, wait to you get a load of what Harlowe and his friends dig up... And She still works!

Finally, the Boys have a series the Girls love to read! In this fourth installment, Harlowe is surfing in the South Pacific with his little brother, Dodger, when Riverstone calls in a panic from the Omini Prime quadrant. All life on the planet Gazz is about to be wiped out by a lethal gamma ray burst in 11 days. According to Wiz, saving the planet with Millawanda's force field is a slam dunk. The plan was going smoothly until hostile forces dropped out of hyperspace, moments before the deadly rays struck. Battling two forces at once, Millie still saves the planet, but at a cost: her power is sucked dry! Unable to maintain orbit, Millawanda plunges into the planet's ocean. Adding to their peril, Riverstone, Lu and Sizzle have vanished and a second gamma ray burst will hit the planet in 37 days! There is a source of thermo-grym to bring back Millie, but Gazz is a 16th century planet of wind-powered ships and slithering beasts called Traas. In a race against time, Harlowe must borrow and commandeer a pirate ship to find the yellow crystals that will power Millawanda back to life before the crew, his girl, the planet and his own life are lost...

Before they were Gamadin, before Fate changed their lives forever, before their discovery of an ancient starship, there was a Southern California city where they grew up. There is nothing particularly unusual or supernatural about the city. They went to school there, ate hamburgers, shakes, and pizza, went to the movies, played baseball, football, and surfed. It was where pretty, sun-tanned girls populated the nearby white sandy beaches, and sliding down the face of a wave was what life was all about. Traveling to distant stars was the farthest thing from their playful imaginations. So what turned these fun-loving boys into future Gamadin? How did they become defenders of the galaxy? Were they born to this future? How did seemly normal boys find the character, the courage, and the sense of right and wrong necessary to serve their ultimate purpose? To find the answers, and others, let us return to this place where their lives began . . . a place called Lakewood . . .

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