When a simple Antarctic search for oil went wrong, turning into an international history-changing event, Joseph Hamsfield’s life got very complicated.

Now, Antarctic expedition personnel are effectively prisoners under UN control. Expedition scientists—
deliberately chosen to cause the project to fail – are at each other’s throats. The entire Los Angeles basin area has been destroyed by a surprise asteroid, and millions are dead. The world is in upheaval, and Hamsfield’s staff, the few people he can really trust, are exhausted.

The push to solve the Precursor riddle intensifies when the pressure cooker explodes into murder. With that as a backdrop for Hamsfield’s daily routine, the existence of a second larger asteroid on its way to finish the job sets in motion a series of events that will alter the course of human history forever - and place Hamsfield in the driver’s seat on the international stage in a way no one would ever have dreamed possible.