FBI Special Agent Karen St. Cloud and TV news anchor Peter Wilde are a
part of an international search for 12 missing nuclear weapons that have
disappeared somewhere in Antarctica in the control of a shadowy deep
ecology group. The eco-radical group EPG* then threatens to destroy the
West Antarctic ice sheet to start a new ice age and end civilization as
we know it. US President Clark and senior officials are skeptical of the
claims until EPG* detonates a warhead in Antarctica. The action takes
place across three continents and the South Pacific. Compounding the
confusion is a major Nor'easter that paralyzes the US East Coast,
massive solar storms, alien First Contact, and mysterious voodoo Loa who
appear intent on destroying humanity.