America's most secret base - an Air Force installation known only as Area 7 - has a visitor: the President of the United States. But hostile forces are waiting inside. Among the President's helicopter crew is a young Marine, Schofield. Rumour has it that he's a good man in a storm. Judging by what the President has just walked into, he'd better be.

It is America's most secret base, hidden deep in the Utah desert, an Air Force installation known only as Area 7. And today it has a visitor: the President of the United States. He has come to inspect Area 7, to examine its secrets for himself. But he's going to get more than he bargained for on this trip. Hostile forces are waiting inside...Among the President's helicopter crew, however, is a young Marine. He is quiet, enigmatic, and he hides his eyes behind a pair of silver sunglasses. His name is Schofield. Call-sign: Scarecrow. Rumour has it that he's a good man in a storm. Judging by what the President has just walked into, he'd better be...

Matthew Reilly is the bestselling author of Contest, Ice Station, Temple, Area 7, Scarecrow, Seven Ancient Wonders, The Six Sacred Stones, the children's book Hover Car Racer and one novella, Hell Island.