James Bond should be dead. Left to perish on a missile-bombarded island, 007 is miraculously rescued by 002, Marcus T Jones, a man with orders, secrets and a mission of his own. But death doesn't wait and neither do those who wield it. Bond soon discovers that Project Thanatos, the nanobot weapon that nearly killed im, is not only still active, but evolving. With mankind on the brink of an irreversible genetic apocalypse, Bond must hunt the truth through a trail of betrayal, bioweapons and buried identities. Partnering with the formidable 001, Nomi, Bond races across continents to uncover the mastermind behind Tjanatos: a rogue biochemist whose ambitions go far beyond revenge. Time is against him. The world is at stake. And death, once deferred, is coming back with a vengeance. Bond survived the impossible. Now he must stop the unthinkable..