Publisher's Synopsis
The countdown has begun. The Tenth Protocol has been activated and the evacuation of the surface is about to begin. Millions of lives will be saved, but billions more will be lost. As the old world crumbles, there are some on the surface who seek to save those doomed to die a gruesome death. But are they willing to sacrifice themselves to achieve it? Humans have long believed that their civilization was the first and only to grace the Earth. But eons ago, a technologically advanced race that inhabited the planet was destroyed in fire and blood. As the clock counts down to zero, humanity must unlock the secrets of this dark past before history repeats itself.
