When Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon answer a research ship's distress call, they find a strange toxin has left the crew unable to move or speak. And when a further attack leaves hundreds more paralysed, they must race to find an antidote before the damage becomes permanent. But time is running out, and it will take all of Juan's ingenuity and skill to solve the millennia-old mystery. A sinister plot that will devastate the Western world.