"Off the coast of Madagascar and on the run, underwater archaeologist Daniel Knox is searching for the wreck of a Chinese treasure ship. But when an old friend and her father vanish from the idyllic Eden nature reserve, he breaks cover to go and investigate. It is the opportunity Georgian gangster Ilya Nergadze had been waiting for. His two hit men close in fast on Knox, eager to settle an old score. Also bound for Eden is TV zoologist Rebecca Kirkpatrick, determined to find her missing family and solve a mystery from her past. As Knox and Rebecca chase their answers it becomes increasingly clear that Eden's beautiful reefs and forest conceal more than a multitude of dangers and ugly truths - they also hide a lethal secret that could just rewrite the history of the New World."--Page 4 of cover.