Set about a decade on from 'Footprints of Thunder', the quilts have been stabilised and the world has had to come to terms with the disruptions caused by the original quilting but to those on the President's advisory council, it has become clear that the last decade had been a hiatus rather than a final state and a number of characters from the earlier book come together in order to investigate the renewed threat. This time, the investigations covertly take us to Alaska where a secret government project is looking to exploit the quilt effect for its energy properties, to the Moon where a clearly artificial artefact had been intriguing Dr Paulson ever since the original quilts, though he hadn't expected to be going along on the mission, and finally, but most definitely not least, a mission to Central America where a temple with strange properties was rumoured to be sending out strange energy readings. As the members of each team reach their destinations, they find that the three sites are interlinked to each other, and the survival of the world in ways they hadn't imagined.

When I first read this, I didn't particularly like it and while I still don't rate it as highly as the first book, I did enjoy it more that at its first reading ( )