New York Times bestselling author James Rollins dives far beneath the waves into unimaginable peril in this classic tale of action and adventure.

Ex-Navy SEAL Jack Kirkland surfaces from an aborted underwater salvage mission to find Earth burning. Solar flares have triggered a series of gargantuan natural disasters. Earth-quakes and hellfire rock the globe. Air Force One has vanished from the skies with Americas president on board.

Now with the United States on the narrow brink of a nuclear apocalypse Kirkland must pilot his oceangoing exploration ship Deep Fathom on a desperate mission miles below the oceans surface. There devastating secrets await him--and a power an ancient civilization could not contain that has been cast out into modern day where it will forever alter a world thats already racing toward its own destruction.

See why the Providence Journal-Bulletin calls James Rollins the modern master of the action thriller with this classic Rollins tale.