An unusual figurine and the Amazon Basin archaeologists who found the relic are at the heart of a mystery surrounding a series of brutal killings at New York's Museum of Natural History.

Archaeologist Dilara Kenner is contacted by Sam Watson, an old family friend who says that he has crucial information about her missing father so she abandons her Peruvian dig and rushes to Los Angeles to meet him. At the airport, Sam speaks instead of Noah's Ark--the artifact her father had been searching for--and the possible death of billions. Before Sam can explain he collapses and with his dying breath he urges Dilara to find Tyler Locke, a man...