Riddle takes that theory into the realm of fiction by suggesting that an advanced race occupying the city of Atlantis bestowed this genetic gift to humanity, allowing it to survive the “Toba Catastrophe,” the eruption of a supervolcano. The theory posits that, somehow, Homo Sapiens developed language and tool-building skills in a sudden “Great Leap Forward” which enabled them to develop communal societies. Here, Riddle draws on real evolutionary theory about why Homo Sapiens, of the several hominoid species co-existing 70,000 years ago, survived a mass extinction event when other species, including the stronger, larger-brained Neanderthals, did not. There, Martin Grey, her stepfather and a higher-up in the Immari hierarchy, explains the importance of her research: Brains on the autism spectrum may hold a clue to the long sought-after “Atlantis Gene,” a genetic anomaly that could theoretically determine the future of human evolution. When Vale’s investigation connects Immari to the kidnapped boys, he and Warner team up to uncover the reasons behind the kidnapping and to recover the children.Īrmed with a series of mysterious, encrypted clues, Vale and Warner are pursued by Immari security forces who force them off the road and kidnap Warner, taking her to an Immari research facility in China. Meanwhile, David Vale, former CIA agent and current Clocktower operative, uncovers a conspiracy to take down the counterterrorism organization, stemming from the Immari corporation, a multinational conglomerate with subsidiaries in both research and private security. Soon after, two young boys, test subjects in an autism study, are kidnapped from a research facility, and the lead geneticist, Kate Warner, embarks on a dangerous quest to find them. When two researchers uncover a Nazi U-boat buried atop a mysterious structure in the Antarctic ice, their discovery triggers a race for the future of humanity.
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