<b>The dazzling new novel in the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling series from the grand master of adventure ... </b><br><br>It is called zero-point energy, and it really exists - a state of energy contained in all matter everywhere, and thus all but unlimited. Nobody has ever found a way to tap into it ... until one scientist succeeds. Unfortunately, his intentions are far from noble.<br><br>The scientist is determined to avenge himself upon those who have scorned and vilified him, and constructs machines that will use the zero-point energy to unleash an apocalypse of earthquakes and cracks in the Earth's tectonic plates.<br><br>With disaster drawing closer, Kurt Austin and the NUMA team race to find the machines before they're activated. For if they fail, the world will literally be torn apart ...