The Martian Pendant

Diana Howard is a lovely English palaeoanthropologist whose intuition and discovery leads to a radical challenge of the theory of primitive hominids in Africa being precursors to the human race. Also discovered is a fabulous alien technology millions of years old, far advanced over ours, even today. Her path of discovery in fraught with danger at every turn. The local environment offers unique and deadly hazards, and international intrigue and violence from diverse forces seek to steal or destroy the anthropological and technical wonders her work uncovers. Diana is pursued virtually around the world by agents of the Soviet Union, Communist China, the Mafia and even the Vatican and the FBI, subjecting her to a number of exciting chases and thrilling adventures. From the beginning there is pursuit also by CIA agent Dan Stuart, who has mostly romance in mind. Inspired by a pendant handed down in her family for hundreds of years, and with Dan's help and love, she is finally able to present her scientific findings to the world, triumphantly establishing that the human race came from Mars. All but a few characters portrayed in this work are the product of the author's imagination, and thus in those instances, similarities to any individual, living or dead, can only be coincidental.