On the morning of the day when the first solar eclipse of the new millennium was to occur, no one suspected that very soon the life of all humanity would change in the most fatal way. When the Earth was covered by a dark veil, a powerful solar flare triggered a series of natural disasters. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions shook the globe. Scientist Jack Kirkland suspects that the cause of these cataclysms is somehow connected with a strange crystalline column discovered on the ocean floor. Mysterious inscriptions are carved on this column, in which an ancient people who lived twelve thousand years ago tried to convey some kind of warning. A new super bestseller, new thrilling adventures from the author of “Subterranean,” “Amazonia,” and “Sandstorm.”