A NUMA research vessel is taking water samples in the Indian Ocean, when a member of the crew spots a black sheen ahead of them. A swarm of black particles suddenly attacks the ship, killing everyone aboard, while the ship goes up in flames. A few hours later, Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and other members of the NUMA Special Assignments Team are on their way to the site. What they find will lead to the discovery of a plan to permanently alter the...

An alarming rise in the world's sea levels--much larger than could be accounted for by glacier melt--sends Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA scientific team rocketing around the globe in search of answers. What they find at the bottom of the East China Sea, however, is even worse than they imagined: a diabolical plan to upset the Pacific balance of power--and in the process displace as many as a billion people. A rare alloy unlike...

In the Micronesian Islands, a U.S. government-sponsored undersea lab conducting research on a rare jellyfish known as the Blue Medusa disappears. At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere is attacked by an underwater vehicle, its passengers--including Joe Zavala--left to die. Only Kurt Austin's heroic measures save them, but, suspecting a connection, Austin puts the NUMA team on the case. What they find is a hideous series of medical experiments,...