Exiled space pirate Kip Keene crashes in the Andes after a millennia-long cryogenic sleep. Keene awakens to an unfamiliar world threatened by an old friend. This former ally seeks a powerful Incan artifact that can fix their ruined ship and return them home - at significant cost.

Activating the artifact will vaporize the Earth's atmosphere, killing all life within days. To save a planet he barely knows, Keene - with the help of rogue FBI Agent Samantha Strike, who has her own secret agenda - must uncover the secrets of the Lost City of the Incas before the world ends.

But in saving this world, Keene might destroy his one chance of ever seeing his home again.

The Kip Keene series blends the fast-pace and exotic locales of adventure stories a la Indiana Jones & Clive Cussler with the mind-bending wonder of science fiction.