The Last Oracle - Paperback

by Christopher Hepworth (Author)

As a series of bizarre climate-related events occur across our planet, it seems the world is edging towards a catastrophic tipping point.Rex Daingerfield is the owner of a giant fracking company that seeks to exploit a rich seam of gas in the environmentally sensitive Greenland ice shelf. But Daingerfield has a nemesis - his daughter. Born to an Egyptian mother, she is inducted as the Oracle of the Temple of Sekhmet. Her role is to protect the earth from the likes of her father.The Oracle recruits the world's greatest negotiator, Sam Jardine, to convince her father to change his destructive business model. But a secret society of the rich and powerful stands to profit from the chaos that has gripped the world. Led by an errant priest from the Temple of Sekhmet, he will do anything to stop Jardine.As the planet edges closer to disaster, Jardine is confronted by politicians, lobbyists, vested interests - even his own radicalised half-brother - all of whom stand to gain from the mayhem about to be unleashed.