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    The Fifth World: An eShort Story
    The Fifth World: An eShort Story
    The Fifth World: An eShort Story
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    The Fifth World: An eShort Story

    By Javier Sierra

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    New York Times bestselling author Javier Sierra offers up a heartpounding short story that occurs in the hours leading up to midnight of 12/21/12—when the Mayan calendar predicts the world will come to an end.

    The Mayan sacred astronomers believed that every 5,126 years the world experienced a rebirth. According to their calculations, on midnight of December 21, 2012 the world would come to an end and the Fifth World would begin. Only four people in the world knew of the approaching apocalypse and in the hours leading up to the aforementioned time, three are found dead. The only one left, Tess Mitchell, must race against the clock to escape the same fate.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtria Books
    Release dateJun 19, 2012
    ISBN9781451689600
    The Fifth World: An eShort Story
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    Javier Sierra

    Javier Sierra, whose works have been translated into forty languages, is the author of The Lost Angel, The Lady in Blue, and the New York Times bestselling novel The Secret Supper. One of the most accomplished authors on the Spanish literary scene, Sierra studied journalism at the Complutense University of Madrid. El Maestro del Prado spent a year on the bestseller list in Spain, gaining the admiration of art experts, aficionados, and critics. A native of Teruel, Spain, he currently lives in Madrid with his wife and two children.

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      The Fifth World - Javier Sierra

      Contents

      Praise for Javier Sierra

      Also by Javier Sierra

      The Fifth World

      About the Author

      PRAISE FOR JAVIER SIERRA

      Praise for The Secret Supper

      For fans of religious conspiracy and reinterpretations of religious history.

      —Washington Post

      "The Secret Supper is a fascinating yarn and very well told."

      —San Francisco Chronicle

      Sierra emerges as a strong contender in historical fiction with his mostly well-crafted book.

      —Rocky Mountain News

      Javier Sierra’s take on Da Vinci is much sharper, more focused and more rewarding.

      —New York Daily News

      "No mere Da Vinci Code redux, this Spanish bestseller fuses an ecclesiastical whodunit with an A–Z guide to Neoplatonist philosophy and Renaissance symbology. Sierra is a more sophisticated writer than Dan Brown, and he offers fresh perspective on the Renaissance mind."

      —Kirkus Reviews

      Offers a new way of interpreting The Last Supper. Sierra’s book, already a bestseller in Europe, is a fresh contribution to the Da Vinci industry.

      —Publishers Weekly

      Praise for The Lost Angel

      A coiling plot, full of insightful characters, with an intriguing mix of hopes and fears.

      —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Jefferson Key

      Sierra takes us on a riveting quest through 5,000 years of humanity’s rich esoteric history, peeling away those fascinating onionskin layers of our own hidden past. 

      —Katherine Neville, author of The Eight and The Fire

      Sierra has fashioned a spine-tingling apocalyptic thriller set in real-world locations and based on well-researched mythology and scientific facts, with just the right amount of fiction to make for an excellent read.

      —Library Journal

      This plot-driven adventure is a definite page-turner.

      —Booklist

      A fascinating and gripping tale.

      —Heather Terrell, author of Fallen Angel

      A rocket-paced page turner. Fans of Dan Brown will find everything they’re looking for—and so much more.

      —Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of Darkness, My Old Friend

      Praise for The Lady in Blue

      "Javier Sierra’s The Lady in Blue is an intriguing ‘eye-opener’ intertwining historical and scientific research with his own experience of surprising synchronicities. An exciting read!"

      —Margaret L. Starbird, author of The Woman with the Alabaster Jar and Mary Magdalene, Bride in Exile

      Sierra makes it all entertaining, intermixing history, churchly intrigue, folklore, spycraft, musicology and conspiracy journalism.

      —Kirkus Reviews

      [An] intriguing paranormal puzzler.

      —Publishers Weekly

      "At once a paranormal thriller and an exploration

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