While investigating a mass stranding of marine life, Austin and Zavala uncover a mystery involving stolen findings, cryptic messages and a battle against a brilliant machine plotting a global catastrophe in the twentieth book of the series following Condor's Fury.
Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew face swarms of deadly bio-hacked sea locusts, a runaway AI system, and a sinister cult in the latest novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series created by the grand master of adventure Clive Cussler.
When Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala investigate a mass stranding of aquatic life in the Indian Ocean, they accidentally uncover a much deeper mystery. A strange figure soon steals NUMAs findings, forcing a high-speed chasesomeone really didnt want them examining those dead whales. But who, and why?
A cryptic text through the NUMA satellite network makes things still stranger: these odd phrases and numbers look like NUMA codes. But who could be tantalizing the crew with such specific knowledge of their tech? Are they being helped by an old friend, or lured into a trap by a traitor who knows a little too much about NUMAs inner workings?
Kurt, Joe, and even Max, the agencys supercomputer, will have to investigate like never before as they decrypt data, infiltrate a cult of cloned men, and prepare for a battle on two very different planes: one physical; one digital. The aquatic stranding was just the beginning of a sinister plan concocted by a mind more brilliant than any theyve ever facedthe mind of a machine. A new, terrifying world order is being plotted. First marine ecosystems will be devastated, then the entire globes…Unless the NUMA crew can stop this code of desolation.
