MONSTERS. ALIENS. ROBOTS,

Palmer blends high-octane pulp-style action with cleverly sinister plotting, showing the dark side of the human condition.

Professor Richard Helms is the head of a research expedition sent to explore New Amazon, a lush, savage planet as dangerous as it is beautiful and strange. When they are done cataloguing every detail of this vast, unfamiliar ecosystem, they will burn it to the ground and make it fit for human habitation. But when the team falls under attack, Helms and his followers are forced to flee into the depths of the alien jungle.

Now, old enemies and petty rivalries surface. The scientists and soldiers soon end up fighting for their lives - against the robots designed to serve them, against the planet they came to explore, and most of all, against each other.

The countdown into madness is ticking •..