


As they press deeper into the unknown the threat to the outside world becomes only more daunting.The mysteries of Area X may have been solved but their consequences and implications are no less profound or terrifying. One last desperate team embarks across the border determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers they've been seeking. But as instructed by a higher authority known only as The Voice the self-styled Control must battle to put his house in order.

His first day is spent grappling with the fall-out from the last expedition. The second book of the Southern Reach trilogy introduces John Rodriguez the new head of the government agency responsible for the safeguarding of Area X. 2 days ago &0183 &32 Southern extended its lead to 2-0 the following inning through a two-out hit by Ray Mulhern. One has ended in mass suicide another in a hail of gunfire the eleventh in a fatal cancer epidemic. For thirty years Area X has remained mysterious and remote behind its intangible border an environmental disaster zone though to all appearances an abundant wilderness.The Southern Reach a secretive government agency has sent eleven expeditions to investigate Area X.
