What cannot be emphasized enough is that the conquest of the Incas by the Spanish conquistadors represents perhaps the single greatest collision of cultures in the history of human evolution.

Here was the most dominant seafaring nation on earth, bringing with it all the latest steel technology from Europe, clashing with the most powerful empire ever to have existed in the Americas.

Deep in the jungles of Peru the contest of the century is underway.It's a race to locate a legendary Incan idot- one carved out of a strange kind of stone. But a stone which, in the present age, coutd be used as the basis for a terrifying new weapon.

The US Army wants this prize at any cost. But they are not atone...

The only clue to the idol's finat resting ptace is to be found in a 400-year-otd manuscript. Which introduces Professor William Race,a mild-mannered but briltiant young tinguist, who is unwittingty recruited to interpret the document that coutd lead the US team to the idot itsetf.

So begins the mission that will lead Race and his armed companions to a mysterious stone temple hidden in the foothitts of the Andes. This is a carefutty contrived sanctuary seething with menace and unexpected dangers. But it is not untit the silence of the tempte is breached that Race and his team discover they have broken a golden rute...