Deep within a mountain in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a Cold War-era nuclear weapons storage facility is being used to covertly receive more than 100,000 tons of nuclear waste. When a small plane crashes at a nearby military base, setting off a lockdown and trapping Department of Energy employee Adonia and her team in the heart of the hazardous, waste-filled mountain, the only direction for them to go is deeper into the mountain, through the tear gas and into a secretive area no one was ever supposed to know about. Doug Beason has lived in Canada, the Philippine Islands, and Okinawa. More than two dozen of Kevin J. Anderson's novels have appeared on national bestseller lists, and he has over 11 million books in print worldwide.