Carl Sandberg passed out drunk and woke up a prisoner at the hands of radical terrorists. He never thought he'd be incarcerated, much less by the enemy. He also never considered he might escape. Recovering an artifact shaped like a spear, Carl was able to bridge dimensions and free himself. But where did this little spear come from? And what did the gilded inscription in that strange language wrapping around it mean?He soon found some questions are better left unanswered, especially when those answers involve the manipulation of time and space, the loss of an entire world, and contact with a race of extra-terrestrials misunderstood by mankind for thousands of years...