Polar shift, antarctica, ancient spaceship, "Mother Earth"

[WaltBaker]

I previously worked overseas and flew quite a bit. I purchased a book that had to do with an ancient alien spaceship, shifting poles, Antarctica, a General's son, and a Catholic school dropout save the world type that was called "Mother Earth" by her adversaries. Ring any bells with anyone?

Thank you

Walt

[Shane Enochs]

No clue, but it sounds interesting as hell.

[The Judge]

Sorry, can't help either. But I'll take this across to Book Search, which is where knowledgeable people hang out just waiting for puzzles of this kind.

[HareBrain]

This sounds like it was inspired by the theories of Charles Hapgood, Rand Flem-Ath ("The Atlantis Blueprint") and so on. I often wondered if those ideas would spawn any fiction, but never came across any. When did you read it?

[iansales]

There's an ancient alien spaceship, iirc, in The Asgard Run by Steve Vance.

[WaltBaker]

Originally Posted by HareBrain

This sounds like it was inspired by the theories of Charles Hapgood, Rand Flem-Ath ("The Atlantis Blueprint") and so on. I often wondered if those ideas would spawn any fiction, but never came across any. When did you read it?

I would have read it between November 2005 and January 2010, the time-frame I was working overseas. I would purchase books at the airport for the long flights. I still have many of them (refuse to throw out a book), but have since moved, married, and had an episode or two of spring cleaning take place.

I remember that in the first part of the book a fella (journalist perhaps) and a woman are in Peru, talking about the Nazca lines and alien potential when their exchange is interrupted by a helicopter looking for him. It goes on a wild global race from there to find this ship, he comes across a former nun-in-training that he was dating, involves the melting of Antarctica to reveal a temple of sorts... and so on. It could just be that I have read too many books and am piecing together my own that doesn't actually exist, I do have a very active imagination and dream quite vividly.

Thanks again

[iansales]

Something by Matthew Reilly? Or one of the Area 51 novels by Robert Doherty?

[WaltBaker]

I FOUND IT!!!!

Raising Atlantis, Thomas Greanis

Hours of searching but it paid off.