The dazzling new novel in the #1 NY Times-bestselling series from the grand get better at of adventure.

It is called no stage energy, and it certainly exists-a condition of energy contained in all matter everywhere, and thus basically unlimited. Nobody offers ever found ways to utilize it, however-until one scientist discovers a way.

Or at least he feels he has. The problem is, his machines also trigger great earthquakes, even fissures in tectonic plates. One machine is normally buried deep underground; the various other is submerged inside a huge ocean trench. If Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala and all of those other NUMA group aren’t in a position to find and destroy them, and quickly, the world will be for the threshold of a new era of earth tremors and unchecked volcanism.

Right now, that can’t be good.