Those who don’t learn history’s lessons are doomed to repeat them.

Antarctica, one of earth’s harshest environments, holds a terrible secret. Joseph Hamsfield, a petroleum geologist, is digging there for oil… illegally. His team uncovers evidence of a lost pre-historic civilization, prompting the world’s governments to send a multi-disciplinary team of scientists to investigate. Hamsfield wrestles with academic obstinance and shady politics as he tries to hold fractious personalities together so they can rewrite the script of early human history.

Worse, those scientists’ delving discovers the truth of that civilization’s extinction – a literal out-of-this-world threat due to return from the deep past. The entire team must translate these elder people’s language, and grasp their bizarre technology, while a doom’s day clock ticks inexorably to a world-shaking day of reckoning on multiple fronts.