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1999:
The searing heat and killing drought had not let up for five years. The American Southwest was dying slowly, painfully. But, while the increasingly desperate population searched the merciless skies in hope of some relief, the real trouble lay hidden underground.
To the horror of government scientists, satellite scans revealed a huge sinkhole forming beneath the city of Dallas.
Oil billionare Otto Ralt knew the geological secret that could save the city. But he was determined to use that knowledge for his own ends, even at the risk of nuclear war. Only Jedediah Heffernan, geologist and expert caver, could stop Ralt.
But Heffernan was paralysed by the memory of a gruesome underground accident that had taken his partner's life. It was only when an irrepressibly curious nine-year-old boy got involved that the crisis reached boiling point
