Dark Rising: Alex Hunter, Book 2

A sudden burst of radiation is detected beneath the desert in Iran. Alex Hunter - code name Arcadian - and his highly trained incursion team are dropped into the ruins of Persepolis. All they find is an empty underground facility - nothing to explain the gamma spike. It is as if a black hole has swept everything away....

Israel is threatening nuclear war. And someone, or something, is draining the fluids from the bodies of Iranian soldiers in the desert. If a black hole has taken everything, could something have come back? And then another radiation 'event' occurs. An ancient prophecy is unraveling.