The NUMA crew must crack a baffling historical mystery in this
thrilling novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master
of adventure.
After an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico destroys three oil rigs trying
to revive a dying field, Kurt Austin and the NUMA Special Projects Team
are tapped by the President of the United States to find out what's gone
wrong. The trail leads them to a brilliant billionaire in the
alternative energy field. Her goal is the end of the oil age; her
company has spent billions developing the worlds' most advanced
fuel-cell systems. But is she an environmental hero...or a rogue genetic
engineer?
The NUMA crew discovers that the oil fields are infected with bacteria
that are consuming the oil before it can be pumped out of the earth--a
bacteria originally lost decades ago when two submarines vanished in the
Mediterranean.
With hired killers on his trail, can Kurt Austin locate a submarine
that's remained hidden for more than fifty years? And even if he can,
can the biological terror that's been unleashed be stopped?