Synopsis: "For over two thousand years the development of the human race has been influenced and shaped by the Connexion, a mysterious extra-terrestrial conduit for the transfer of information, inspiration and wisdom. But Mankind's continued recklessness, greed and craving for conquest has led ultimately to the manipulation and exploitation of that exclusive flow of knowledge, and the architects of the Connexion are ready and willing to sever the link. Through the interception of an enigmatic thirty-word message, a race against time to reach the outer confines of the solar system, the discovery of an army of intellectual warriors conditioned to shepherd humanity toward extinction, and the haunting pleas of a being in the most desperate need, five astronauts are driven to the limits of their physical endurance and compelled to an unknown world where their darkest fears lay in wait." — quoted from this book's product page on Amazon as of 2018-02-07.