An attractive woman archaeologist and her young son come to Maui to take the job of a lifetime working for a massively wealthy Japanese industrialist on his very private collection. But soon she discovers specimens in the laboratory that defy all her knowledge of prehistoric life and which seem, mysteriously, menacingly, not to be ancient at all...
At Science City an astronomer begins to receive strange signals from space that he cannot fathom. And by the time he does perceive their real pattern, it may well be too late...
And slowly, horrifyingly - without rational explanation - otherwise healthy children are falling victim to a sudden, life threatening illness that defies all medical knowledge, ending in a horrifying battle for breath that no emergency measures can ease.
From deep under the Pacific, from the molten, fire-spewing maw of the island's seething volcanoes, to the secret mountain side laboratories where a shocking experiment could unleash a horrifying fate for mankind, 'The Presence' is a terror-filled roller-coaster ride.
