The world's biggest supercollider, locked in an Arizona mountain, was built to unlock the secrets of the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself. Twelve scientists under the leadership of a famed Nobel Laureate are sent to the remote mountain to turn it on...And what they discover must be hidden from the world at all costs. Wyman Ford, ex-monk and CIA operative, is tapped to wrest from the team their secret, a secret that will either destroy the world--or save it.

Douglas Preston has worked for the American Museum of Natural History. With his frequent collaborator, Lincoln Child, he has authored such bestselling thrillers as Dance of Death, Brimstone, Still Life with Crows, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Riptide, Reliquary, Mount Dragon, and Relic, which became a major Hollywood movie. His nonfiction work includes Dinosaurs in the Attic, which chronicles the explorers and expeditions of the American Museum of Natural History's early days. His latest solo novel is The Codex.