n Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor. In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications. In Vancouver, a small research submrine is leased for use in the waters off New Guinea. It would seem that the head of Nerf, a green organisation with secret links to the eco-terrorist group Elf, is prepared to to to the greatest extremes to grab media attention for the approaching climate conference. But lawyer Peter Evans and John Kenner, spy and academic scientist, soon sense that something is afoot. From the glaciers of Iceland to the volcanoes of Antarctica, from the Arizona desert to the deadly jungles of the Solomon Islands, Evans and Kenner find themselves in global ecological warfare.