An extremophile organism makes the jump from volcanic vents under the sea to Antarctic caves, and is discovered by US naval operation HighJump in 1948.

In a desperate race across the Greenland ice cap today, Maric and a Canadian Mounties MSERT team are too late to stop a sample of the organism, transplanted to a new home, falling into the wrong hands.

Recruiting a Georgian militia team fighting Jihadist elements in the Caucasus Mountains, Maric and a Grey Ops force must find and destroy the sample before a Chechen warlord weaponises it, creating a new Weapon of Mass Destruction.

Maric at his finest!