Montaro Caine
✍ Scribed by Sidney Poitier
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Spiegel & Grau
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 190 KB
- Edition
- Unabridged
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0385531125
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
A baby is born with a coin in her hand. An orphan crafts a mysterious wooden object. The CEO of a large corporation finds himself under extraordinary pressure at work and at home. And on a remote hilltop on a Caribbean island, a medicine man seems to understand the meaning of all of these events and to hold the key to the future.
Montaro Caine, CEO of the Fitzer Corporation, is losing control of the company he built just as his teenage daughter is going through a rebellion of her own. At this moment of crisis, a man and woman appear at his office with a coin of unknown provenance, composed of a metal unknown on Earth. Montaro immediately recognizes it as the companion of a coin he analyzed as a graduate student working in a lab at MIT, which was later returned to its unidentified owner. The coin's appearance draws the attention of scientists, collectors, financiers, and thieves, who all vie to get their hands on it, and Montaro himself hopes that the discovery...
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