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Echelon (Children of the Fifth Sun Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Gareth Worthington (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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She thought there was nothing stronger than a mother's bond. She was wrong.

FIFTEEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO, the knowledge bringers—an amphibious, non-humanoid species known as the Huahuqui—came after a great global flood, gifting humans with math, science, and civility.

We killed them all.

Seventy years ago, we found one of their corpses preserved in ice and eventually created a clone named K'in. Our governments fought over the creature and we killed it, too. Now, a sinkhole in Siberia has opened, revealing new secrets.

FREYA NILSSON spent the last five years trying to forget her role in the Huahuqui cloning program. She hid her son, KJ, from the regimes and agencies she believed would exploit him for the powers he acquired through his father's bond with K'in.

An innocent trip to help KJ understand his abilities results in the conspiracy she fought to bury exploding back to life. Chased by new foes and hounded to put the world first, all Freya can think of is protecting KJ—at all costs.

Children of the Fifth Sun: Echelon is the sequel to Gareth Worthington's multi-award-winning debut novel Children of the Fifth Sun.

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"Children of the Fifth Sun: Echelon is a frenetic blockbuster thriller that weaves a compelling tale of action, adventure, and romance. The story ensnares the imagination from the first page and ramps up the tension and suspense to a thrilling climax and intriguing cliffhanger. Engrossing, engaging, and fantastically written, this is a must-read." -- John Murray, Seattle Book Review

About the Author

Gareth Worthington holds a degree in marine biology, a PhD in Endocrinology, an executive MBA, is Board Certified in Medical Affairs, and currently works for the Pharmaceutical industry educating the World's doctors on new cancer therapies. Gareth is an authority in ancient history, has hand-tagged sharks in California, and trained in various martial arts, including Jeet Kune Do and Muay Thai at the EVOLVE MMA gym in Singapore and 2FIGHT in Switzerland. His work has won multiple awards, including Dragon Award Finalist and an IPPY award for Science Fiction. He is a member of the International Thriller Writers Association, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and the British Science Fiction Association. Born in England, Gareth has lived around the world from Asia, to Europe to the USA. Wherever he goes, he endeavors to continue his philanthropic work with various charities.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07X4BNWD1
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vesuvian Books (July 1, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 1, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1615 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 226 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1944109633
  • Customer Reviews:
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Gareth Worthington holds a degree in marine biology, a PhD in Endocrinology, an executive MBA, is Board Certified in Medical Affairs, and currently works for the Pharmaceutical industry educating the World's doctors on new cancer therapies.

Gareth is an authority in ancient history, has hand-tagged sharks in California, and trained in various martial arts, including Jeet Kune Do and Muay Thai at the EVOLVE MMA gym in Singapore and 2FIGHT Switzerland.

He is an award-winning author and member of the International Thriller Writers Association, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and the British Science Fiction Association.

Born in England, Gareth has lived around the world from Asia, to Europe to the USA. Wherever he goes, he endeavors to continue his philanthropic work with various charities.

Gareth is represented by Renee Fountain and Italia Gandolfo at Gandolfo Helin Fountain Literary, New York.

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Gigi Sedlmayer, Book Excellence Award Finalist winning author of the Talon series
5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic read
Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2018
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In the second book of the series, Children of the fifth sun, Freya and Kelly Junior hear about a bottomless sinkhole and missing children in Siberia. They go to investigate. There, the missing children with their "Companions", the Huahuqui, a new race, adapted from the first in book 1. come out of the hole. They are bonded to the creatures. As soon as KJ sees them, he too bonded with one of them. That made the book heartwarming, but still, lots of things do happen. Freya is afraid, that she might lose him, but in the end, she is helping the creatures to escape from the clutches of the government.
Will they succeed?
I loved already book one, and i love that one.
Amazing read. Enjoyed it very much. Loved the characters. Loved the book.
Loved K'in from the first book, the gentle alien, or was it an alien? with Kelly and Freya.
It was so different from all the other sci-fi books I have read.
Sci-fi in it's best.
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Space Cowgirl
4.0 out of 5 stars How To Say Vodka🍸 In Six Languages
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2018
Changing Human History.

Kelly Junior👨 is born with special abilities, he can read minds, predict events with accuracy, and manipulate people and animals. He is only a five year old boy, yet his brain is that of a man, a genius. His mental abilities are still growing.

A seemingly bottomless sinkhole has been found in Siberia. It's perfectly round and black inside, no light penetrates. All of the local children👫 from the closest native village have already been drawn to it and have fallen in.

Freya, Kelly Jr's mother, has traveled to Siberia with him to look at the hole. Is there something super natural about it?
The same day Freya and Kelly Jr👨 arrive, the missing children👫 start coming back to the native village. Each one is accompanied By a Huahuqui👾, an alien being! The Huahuqui👾 are cloned, and were thought to be totally destroyed by The American and Chinese governments years ago, yet here they are!
Have the governments been hiding the creatures👾 in Siberia this whole time? Are The Huahuqui👾 bonding to The children👫 because they are pure, or because they can be easily manipulated?

The back and forth jumping around to different locations and myriads of different Kharacters is making me Krazy! It reads like a hacked up movie with Konfusing Krazy Kuts all the time. The book ends in a Kliffhanger, too!

ARC Received from HG.
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Jonas Saul
5.0 out of 5 stars So damn good!
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2018
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Gareth is on fire! He just keeps getting better. I look for tension and conflict in a novel. I wait for it to happen, to hit me in the gut (because I learn to care about the characters, so it does turn into a gut punch), and then my empathetic muscle is taxed as we hurtle along the rollercoaster of emotions, all the while I'm cheering on Gareth's characters to win. Man, this guy is in my wheelhouse as an author. Write more, write faster, Mr. Worthington, and I'll keep reading.
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Montzalee Wittmann
5.0 out of 5 stars Great follow up!
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2018
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Children Of the Fifth Sun:Echelon by Gareth Worthington is a very suspenseful, action packed, and outstanding book that I enjoyed from beginning to end! I love this species of life that is bonding with the children! It is heartwarming but terrifying of what the government is going to do...never good things! Great job!
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Heather97
5.0 out of 5 stars Omg I love this series!
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2018
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I love this series! I can't wait to see where it goes next! Hope you write fast Gareth lol Thank you so much for the great books!!!!!
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Allison J. Springer
4.0 out of 5 stars A twist on 'ancient aliens'
Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2018
I received this book as an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
This book grabbed me right away. It opens with a shipwreck and then flashes back to the events leading up to that wreck. We learn right away that the child, KJ is very important but not why so it drew me in. I don't know if the first book might have shed light on the reason, but for me, it was a mystery.
The story had a little bit of everything: sci-fi, mystery, politics, suspense. It also presented a nice twist on 'ancient aliens.' They came, helped us, we killed them then cloned them. KJ could be viewed as the result of human and huahuqui interspecies mating, opening the door to all sorts of possibilities for humanity and therein lies his importance. So, of course the powers of the world have to either replicate him or destroy him, but no matter what, they must control him.
All philosophizing aside, it really was a compelling read. I had a difficult time putting it down, reading through it quickly.
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Mimbral
2.0 out of 5 stars Over-sized Amphibian aliens cross the globe incognito
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2018
I'll be honest; I just could not get into this story. Maybe picking it up as Book 2 and not having read Book 1 had something to do with it. The plot was kind of straight forward but then unanswered questions popped up immediately. An incident occurs in Siberia, and Americans go zooming in but there is no real sign of Russian activity other than one guy and his team? This is Mother Russia we're talking about. They usually watch their borders very closely. So an American plane lands on the Yamal Peninsula and then flies to Kyrgyzstan without any Russian interception? An approximate distance of 3km? Yet Yamal is but 1.5km from Moscow? I can believe in aliens living under ice for hundreds of thousands of years before I believe Russia would not notice American transports flying 3km over the homeland.
Then the aliens, and a bunch of people from a tribe suddenly need to go somewhere: and not Russia or America. They leave a firefight, get on a plane, the plane hops down in Kyrgyzstan and then lands at a US base in Somalia called Shabelley? I know Chabelley Airfield in neighboring Djibouti. They land and are immediately attacked once more by their shadowy foes. The aliens are under duress, the kids haven't eaten in over a day, people have been shot, things look grim. Then next chapter they drive in American HumVees to Quelimane, in Mozambique, a distance of 4,800km (almost 3,000 miles) to be suddenly attacked again?! I read the entire book, hoping to see a good story. Perhaps I did not see the forest because of the trees. I won't belabor the point though. I can tell there will be a Book 3 but Book2 does not make me want to go read Book 1.
“I voluntarily reviewed this after receiving a free copy.”
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Mrs. Christine N. Hull
5.0 out of 5 stars Went along at a cracking pace.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 25, 2018
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This book was very interesting and enjoyable. The story went along at a cracking pace and kept my attention throughout. I reccommend this book whole heartedly.
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