The death of a starving polar bear triggers a series of global events that confront mankind's gratuitous rape of the planet head on, the aim of which quickly becomes apparent: the extermination of the human race as a species.

Under intense scrutiny by mysterious orange balls of light, an unprecedented round of volcanic activity soon pales into insignificance against a background of increasingly hostile animal kingdom behaviour. London, Paris and Rome are ruthlessly laid to waste, and the US Eastern Seaboard crippled by a devastating tsunami. With the world teetering on the brink,...