Off the coast of Brazil a team of scientists discovers an island where all life has been
eradicated by a species beyond imagination. Before they can report their discovery a
mysterious agency attacks the group killing them all save one: an expert on venomous creatures
Professor Ken Matsui. This inexplicable threat traces back to a terrifying century-old secret
buried beneath the National Mall: a cache of bones preserved in amber that was hidden by a
cabal of scientists?led by Alexander Graham Bell?to protect humankind. The object also holds an
astonishing promise for the future: the very secret of life after death. Now an ancient
horror?dormant in the marrow of those preserved bones?is free once more nursed and developed
into a weapon of incalculable strength and malignancy ready to wreak havoc on an unsuspecting
world. Commander Grayson Pierce will be forced to make an impossible choice. To eradicate this
extinction-level threat and expose those involved he will have to join forces with Sigma's
greatest enemy?the newly resurrected Guild? even if it means sacrificing one of his own.
