Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he...

"A pandemic 70,000 years in the making...will change humanity...forever"--Page [4] of cover.

"Time has almost run out. In the aftermath of a global plague, the human race is shattered and in no state to face the new catastrophe that is now engulfing the planet. But then, from deep space, a signal, a coded message. Someone -- or something -- is out there, searchg."--Page 4 of cover.