WELCOME TO ATLANTIS, 1899 Island paradise, playground of the wealthy ... and the site of an ancient peril that could put an end to all life on Earth! In London, Thomas Blackwood, Special Investigator for Her Majesty’s Bureau of Clandestine Affairs and his colleague, Lady Sophia Harrington of the Society for Psychical Research, are instructed to investigate the disappearance of Albert Michelson and Edward Morley, discoverers of the Interplanetary Æther. The scientists have just finished work on their most recent project: the “Tele-manipulator”, a device allowing human beings to control machines with their minds. The scientists were on an international speaking tour, and were last seen in the Atlantean capital, Poseidonis, before they vanished. The British Government wants them found before their new invention falls into the wrong hands. Blackwood and Sophia embark on a perilous journey from the fog-bound streets of London to the sundrenched and myth-haunted island of Atlantis in an adventure that pits them against mind-controlled assassins, ancient gods, a madman bent on world domination, and a mysterious agent from the legendary Tibetan Kingdom of Shambhala. And in a secret chamber beneath Atlantis’s most sacred shrine, Blackwood and Sophia will make a shattering discovery about the ancient history of Earth ... and Mars!