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arisboch
Since: Jan, 2011

Those are the story elements I remember (warning, spoilers, and some of it may be not quite correct, I read it years ago):
- A tunnel construction project comes upon a time and space anomaly
- The engineer that finds the anomaly with his laser, gets framed and then kicked out of the project. His wife divorces him, as well.
- The head of the project goes to the government and IIRC intergovernmental bodies (possibly the UN) with his discovery, and gets an insane amount of power by them.
- A journalist joins the engineer, and during his investigations, gets his dictaphone ripped out of his hands and destroyed by the goons of the project head. The journalist makes comments about them not being in the Wild West, to which the project head replies not to be so sure about that.
- The team (engineer, journalist, and a woman who is looking for someone, IIRC) come upon a shaman with real powers who is connected to the space-time anomaly in the mountain
- The space-time anomaly gets out of hand, starts sucking up the oxygen of Earth and fucking around with time (e.g. rapidly aging and de-aging people)
- The aforementioned shaman and a ton of others, who joined in earlier, pull something out of WH 40 K and sacrifice themselves to stave off the space-time anomaly
- The journalist gets killed in a helicopter crash
- The engineer, project head and the woman on a quest become the world's new shaman guardians, and reshape it into a form that is not revealed in the novel
Edited by arisboch