In the near future, three volunteers spend their mornings in the Mojave, using ground-penetrating radar and quiet, patient machines to find the people the desert has swallowed. Jackie, Steve and Barry have made an uneasy peace with the work: the heat, the unmarked graves, the gallows humour that gets them from the truck to the flag and back again.
Then, three metres beneath the body of a girl missing since 1978, the radar finds something that should not be there. A made corner. A built edge. A dark band running under the sand for kilometres in every direction — recorded on no map, claimed by no one.
They were never meant to go looking for what lies deeper than the dead. What the Desert Keeps is a tense, humane story about three ordinary people, the technology that lets us finally read the silence of the deep ground — and the question of whether we are ready for what it has to say.
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In the near future, three volunteers spend their mornings in the Mojave, using ground-penetrating radar and quiet, patient machines to find the people the desert has swallowed. Jackie, Steve and Barry have made an uneasy peace with the work: the heat, the unmarked graves, the gallows humour that gets them from the truck to the flag and back again.Then, three metres beneath the body of a girl missing since 1978, the radar finds something that should not be there. A made corner. A built edge. A dark band running under the sand for kilometres in every direction - recorded on no map, claimed by no one.They were never meant to go looking for what lies deeper than the dead. What the Desert Keeps is a tense, humane story about three ordinary people, the technology that lets us finally read the silence of the deep ground - and the question of whether we are ready for what it has to say. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9798180619655
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In the near future, three volunteers spend their mornings in the Mojave, using ground-penetrating radar and quiet, patient machines to find the people the desert has swallowed. Jackie, Steve and Barry have made an uneasy peace with the work: the heat, the unmarked graves, the gallows humour that gets them from the truck to the flag and back again.Then, three metres beneath the body of a girl missing since 1978, the radar finds something that should not be there. A made corner. A built edge. A dark band running under the sand for kilometres in every direction - recorded on no map, claimed by no one.They were never meant to go looking for what lies deeper than the dead. What the Desert Keeps is a tense, humane story about three ordinary people, the technology that lets us finally read the silence of the deep ground - and the question of whether we are ready for what it has to say. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9798180619655
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