A mad African dictator, who imagines himself as the new Hannibal of Carthage, has stolen the secret technologies of the Large Hadron Collider and is now threatening the world's capitals with a new weapon: an installation erected in the ocean, emitting energy of unprecedented power. If his plan comes true, the whole world will be forced to bow to the tyrant - or cities, one after another, will begin to turn into giant crematoria. The army is powerless: planes, ships, missiles instantly burn out, not having time to get closer to the death machine. Who can cope with the dictator and his band of mercenary pirates? Perhaps only the fearless oceanographer Kurt Austin and his colleagues from the legendary National Undersea Research Administration...