Stone 588Book Club Edition Author:Gerald A. Browne Stone 588 is an octahedral crystal that came into the hands of diamond merchant Philip Springer's father many years earlier. It lay ignored because it was so obviously flawed: a rough, whitish-opaque lump with a chipped corner, clearly of no commercial value. — But Springer slowly becomes aware of its special qualities. It is Audrey, the woman ... more »he loves, who begins to shake his skepticism. Audrey is wealthy, beautiful, sensuous, smart, practical - and, unlike Springer, psychically adventurous. She believes that the stone has healing powers. She uses her ederly aunt Libby - a woman of vast riches and vast (but subtly-weilded power)-- to prove it. Libby, sharp and greedy, recognized the true value of the stone. So do others. But by the time a hundred-million-dollar bribe and a successful theft reveal that value to Springer, it is too late. His young son Jake is critically ill -- and Springer must embark on a desperate chase that turns ruthless and bloody, leading to an ingenious burglary in the vaults of Fifth Avenue's most opulent jeweler, a harrowing murder in the Trump Tower, and a clumactic break-neck chase across the spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral.« less