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They called the comet Cain, after the astronomer who discovered it. It passed 500,000 miles from Earth. We were spared planetary destruction and granted a light show like no other. But, one year later, Earth span into the debris field left by the comet and a meteor storm struck. Roads, buildings and even a small town were annihilated. It was the night of a mysterious double murder, the deed overshadowed by the discovery that the burning remains of the rock contained an unknown substance more precious than gold.

The comet, Cain, came from beyond our solar system, its debris containing elements unknown. It brought a powerful new metal to the once-declining Midwest, alien fungus to the forests of the Pacific Northwest, and now, in the isolated region of Fairbanks, Alaska, the skies shift and stretch as an interstellar dust cloud seeds itself in the atmosphere. The National Weather Service dismisses the anomaly. Then, an hour outside of Fairbanks, a plane shudders its way through pulpy, swirling, bruise-shaped clouds, lit with sudden cracks of lightning. The sky opens. And the plane vanishes.

It began with a comet. They called it Cain, a wandering star that passed by Earth, illuminating the night with a swampy green light and twinning the sky by day with two suns. A year later, Earth spun through the debris field the comet left behind.

Paul zieht mit seinem Sohn und seinem Enkel Graham los, um in der Wildnis von Oregon dafür zu sorgen, dass sein Enkel ein richtiger Mann wird. Dies gelingt seiner Meinung nach nicht in der Zivilisation von heute, weswegen er mit den beiden einen Jagdausflug in den Wäldern Oregons plant. Karen, die Frau seines Sohnes Justin, hat Bedenken, ob diese Unternehmung das Richtige für ihre beiden Männer ist.