A crime, perhaps the greatest in the history of humanity, is unraveling the fabric of the web of life. In Southern California, a corporate ladder-climber awakens in the middle of the night to find himself standing naked in his backyard, thunderstruck by the images flooding his mind. Compelled to write to make sense of what has just happened, he is guided toward issues in the Arctic. The feelings exploding through his heart and mind threaten to tear him apart-his only relief is in writing them down. Fifteen hundred miles away the nine-year-old daughter of illegal Mexican immigrants is plagued...