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In the most ambitious and exciting X-Files adventure to date, Mulder and Scully fly to the Yucatan jungle to investigate a missing team of archaelogists. Their exploration leads to a strange electronic signal coming from beneath ancient ruins -- a signal aimed upward, at the stars....

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As FBI agents Mulder and Scully investigate the disappearance of American archaeologist Cassandra Rubicon, who vanished while exploring the lost Mayan city of Xitaclan, a covert U.S. commando team is sent to destroy a strange electronic signal received from beneath the ruins. Reprint.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 getting back on track...., Mars 19 2002

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I have been a fan of The X-files for years and after Mulder left the show, it wasn't the same to watch. I picked up this book and was determined to read through it to get myself back into the characters again and why I fell in love with the show in the first place. I couldn't put the book down. Since reading this book, I have found myself watching the series on a committed basis. If you love the thrill and storyline of Mulder and Scully in The X-Files, then you will definitely enjoy reading this book!

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4.0�toiles sur 5 Top of the Line, Ao� 19 2001

Par	Xiao Zhu (Halifax, NS Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This particular novel contains the most intriguing story of all of Anderson's X-Files work. The plot centers around a newly discovered section of the Mayan ruins. As a team of U.S. students disappears while examining the area, Mulder and Scully of the FBI are called in to investigate. Meanwhile, the same area is also rapidly becoming a hot battleground between Mexican rebel forces and the U.S. military. The complex strands of storyline eventually twines back together into a literally explosive showdown. To make matters even more interesting, the ruins hide something else far more ancient and mysterious deep beneath the incalculable tonnes of dirt and limestone.

Anderson already has a solid grasp of typical X-Files dialogue, as substantiated by his other books of the series. In this novel he concocts up a deep story to complete the package. He describes the various parties well and ties them all in smoothly. Some research has obviously gone into the creation of the book, as Anderson describes the Maya culture with realism. Action in the book rolls along fairly quickly and fairly early. Bullets fly only a couple of chapters into the book. With the added element of the U.S. military commandos and the family of interesting weapons they bring along, this book has a broad action aspect attached to the thriller ideology.

Extremely fast-paced, this is the best of Anderson's X-Files yet.

-Xiao Zhu

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3.0�toiles sur 5 A decent book., Jui 22 2001

Par	"themancalledsam" (Winchester, MA USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This is decent. Not good, not bad, but decent. It features Mulder and Scully going against some weird force that's apparently setting off miniature nuclear explosions in a position to destroy those who have advanced the technology of nuclear weaponry. Kind of ironic, huh?

Mulder and Scully's dialogue stays pretty well within the boundaries of their characters as laid out by the series. I could see this being an X-Files episode.

But like I said before, this is merely decent. The prose isn't breathtaking. There are no incredibly deep philosophical moments. No new ground was really exposed with the characters, but that's an impossibility with a series-based novel. The bottom line is that this is just vanilla. Get it if your a hardcore X-files fan, but otherwise? Fahgeddaboutit. There are much more interesting science fiction books, like Cosm and Mysterium.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 The best yet
I found this book set in the ruins of South America to be excellent. Having seen some minor ruins myself in Mexico, the author reanimated my memories of those. Read more

Publi� le Jui 15 2000 par atmj

5.0�toiles sur 5 Ruins (X-Files No.4)
The novel the Ruins by Kevin J. Anderson is an excellent book because it is an ancient place, it was an exploration of an ancient Maya city, and it had different cultures. Read more

Publi� le Avril 27 2000 par Nicole Entsminger

4.0�toiles sur 5 Wonderfully Entertaining
Of the three X-Files series books I've read(GOBLINS, GROUND ZERO and RUINS), RUINS is most definitely the best. Read more

Publi� le Avril 10 2000 par clang_the_o

3.0�toiles sur 5 Read Ground Zero (at least the last few chapters)
This book was nowhere near as good as everybody seems to think. Three things destroyed this book.

First: Scully. She was just kinda there. Nothing like the show. Read more