Non-Human Origin

What if the greatest threat to humanity isn’t coming from above… but from below?On his 49th birthday, Rex Lassiter decides he's done with danger.After surviving the battlefields of Afghanistan as a Navy SEAL, then fighting blowouts, hurricanes, and armed revolutionaries, on deepwater drilling rigs across the globe, he’s ready to settle into the quiet life on his late grandfather’s Colorado ranch—a place of hard-earned peace and cherished memories.But fate likes irony, and peace is a luxury Rex can’t afford. Ruthless developers circle like vultures, ready to bulldoze his heritage into a billionaire’s playground. With lawsuits bleeding him dry, Rex is one court date away from losing it all.Enter Joss Malloy—a cocky young tech mogul with a proposition too insane to refuse: lead a black-ops crew aboard the Theseus, the world’s most advanced drillship, to retrieve a classified artifact locked 11,000 feet beneath the Antarctic Ocean. The payout? Enough to bury the developers and secure Rex’s future forever.There’s just one problem: the ship’s advanced AI, ADONIS, is unraveling—hallucinating, rewriting code, and whispering in languages no human should understand. And the closer they get, the more the object responds… like it’s waiting.As Rex gathers a ragtag team of battle-hardened veterans, brilliant engineers, and fearless misfits, he must confront the treacherous conditions of the Antarctic while navigating the potential threat of the object below.As ADONIS’s psychosis spirals and the artifact begins to awaken, Rex realizes that what started as a recovery mission is quickly turning into a fight for survival."Some things were never meant to be found. Some doors, once opened, can’t be closed.”In a heart-stopping race against corporate greed, a rogue AI, and a discovery that predates mankind, Rex Lassiter’s final mission becomes humanity’s last stand.Join Rex and his team on a pulse-pounding adventure, where secrets are unearthed that may have been better off left in the Antarctic's icy depths, and one man’s fight for his legacy becomes a battle for the future of Earth.