"Bionics man" is not a typo--it's spelt that way on the book!He's a cyborg. He's half man, half machine. He's Superagent Steve Austin.And he's back--in a new novel combining breathtaking suspense and high adventure in the remote Andes. Austin, the 'Bionics Man', confronts the most awesome challenge of his career in a race to track down the hidden source of a mysterious laser energy inextricably bound to the centuries-old secret behind the 'chariots of the gods'.High in the rugged fastness of the Peruvian interior, a lone parachutist, plummeting to survival, makes a remarkable discovery--an unsegmented 'impossible highway', smooth as marble, more than two miles above sea level. Who built it? How were such huge rocks lifted by prehistoric peoples? How could such technology have been possible? Austin is assigned to uncover the secret behind the highway in the clouds.High Crystal goes beyond and behind legend, dramatically creating new and scientifically plausible reasons for the myths that seem ever closer to reality than man has dared to dream.
Many people around my age have memories of watching Lee Majors as Steve Austin, running in v-e-r-y s-l-o-w m-o-t-i-o-n after the bad guys in The Six Million Dollar Man:
It was meant to show he had super speed or something.
Books, on the other hand, can't do special effects (even the fairly limited kind available to 1970s TV shows), so the author of High Crystal has to stop every once in a while to remind us that Steve Austin is a cyborg. It's a pity these scenes aren't better integrated into the story. Then again Steve's superpowers aren't particularly relevant to the plot, which is a sort of mash-up of Indiana Jones and Erich Von Däniken. Indy didn't make his screen debut until the next decade, but Von Däniken was very, very trendy in the 1970s!
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