Australia, Coral Sea. Employees of the international scientific station “Project Titan” suddenly discovered: the seemingly dead waters are teeming with strange luminous corals, whose way of existence refutes all scientific ideas. Marine biology looks set to have an exciting future. But no; and it may even happen that no future awaits not only science, but also the Earth in general. These waters are a container of destructive forces that are awakened by the invasion of their territory. The Pacific region becomes the site of the beginning of a global cataclysm that has been waiting in the wings for millennia. To prevent it, members of the Sigma Squad must turn to... the ancient beliefs of the Australian Aborigines. They hold the key to what is happening. And also something that could shake the foundations of human existence... James Rollins is a best-selling author of adventure thrillers, the creator of numerous No. 1 New York Times bestsellers, which have sold 20 million copies worldwide and been translated into 40 languages. Rollins is what you get when you put Dan Brown and Michael Crichton in a hadron collider." – New York Times “Rollins is the undisputed leader in that genre of fiction where the plot is based on the modern scientific search for secret truths in the remains of lost civilizations.” – Wall Street Journal