2016. The jewel of the Arabian Peninsula—Dubai—becomes another victim of the Catastrophe Season pressing down on the planet. Right here, in the sandy haze and in the hurricane wind, three savage opponents collide in a ruthless showdown: the headhunter “Faceless,” abandoned to this place from the future; a group of deserters from Russian military intelligence; and a gigantic predator terrorizing the city—its species extinct forty million years ago. What did these seasoned killers from different eras fight over, and who set them against each other in this arena? The answer lies in the caches—valuable artifacts that all of them are searching for, and on which each of them has their own plans. But perhaps they are only pawns in a game, an unwilling participant of which is the whole world…