Set against the backdrop of a startling discovery by a group of German soldiers in the wastes of the Siberian Steppes during the second world war, the story twists and turns its way back into the mists of time before pre-recorded history only to fast forward into our time with cataclysmic consequenses. Wade McAlister, an Oxford professor finds his safe life as an academic thrust into a helter-skelter sequence of events culminating into the most shocking of conclusions.