Synopsis

Ever since his parents passed away when he was twelve, Ben Conklin has lived apart from others. This isolation is precisely why General James Eiger chose him for a year-long assignment: to be stationed in a bunker eleven thousand feet beneath the Arctic tundra, overseeing the controls of a failsafe mechanism established by world leaders after the Hubble telescope detected eleven spaceships on a course for Earth. The device is intended as a final defense against an alien invasion, and Conklin’s t