A fallen meteor sets off a deadly international race to get the precious metal in its core! To Hell and Back The Mukhino tribesman refer to it as the cauldron of hell. and it's the site of Nick Carter's next mission. The Location: The highly inaccessible Amur River section of Chinese Manchuria, the border between China and Russia, and the site of a large crater made by a recent meteorite fall. The Mission: Get into the meteorite's core and bring back Lidanium, an element highly absorbent of radioactivity and both powerful and priceless to its possessor. And the race is on, but suddenly trusted friends become deadly enemies as Nick Carter "Killmaster N3" discovers the race has been fixed and he can not possibly win, or escape!