In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense.
Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known
associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at
a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive
multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this
group is about to get a chance not to study the past but to enter it. And with
history opened to the present, the dead awakened to the living, these men and
women will soon find themselves fighting for their very