Three men, each driven by secret reasons, volunteered to take the strangest trip since the beginning of time: GORDONfilled with a need for power, enough power to wipe out the memory of an earlier terrible shame. LOCKWOODto whom life was worth very little without Susanmaybe it was worth nothing at all. STANTONa man haunted by the knowledge that a special and mysterious fate awaited him. Behind them were their pasts. Ahead of theminfinity. In this different and suspense-filled novel, the author of Donovans Brain tells the story of a strange quest whose outcome might mean the difference between survival and extinction for mankind.