Mandala

When government scientist Mick Keogh glimpses his dead wife on a Metro platform he has no inkling of the journey that lies ahead. The ultimate fate of human intelligence and the universe itself hangs in precarious balance, and a seemingly inconsequential string of mistakes can send it into irretrievable oblivion. Recruited to help solve the mystery of an enormous hidden structure-the Compass Rose- on the plains of Montana, Keogh must operate under constraints he does not comprehend, manage an ad hoc team of experts operating in near-isolation, solve the mystery of unexplained madness that overtakes those who venture too close, and make a perilous journey through time and space and his own tormented past, facing a deadly challenge at the origin of all things and discovering finally the secret of the universal symbol of power and divinity-the Mandala.