Gideon Crew faces his most dangerous assignment yet. Five years ago, a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite – the largest ever discovered – ended in disaster. The tragedy revealed that the meteorite was, in fact, a complex organism from the deep reaches of space. Now, the alien organism has implanted itself in the sea bed – and it is growing. If it is not destroyed, the planet is doomed.
But as Gideon and his colleagues soon discover, the ‘meteorite’ has a mind of its own – and it has no intention of going quietly…