Charlie Joiner is the greatest oil finder of his generation, but his career is ending in dry holes and scandal. His lifelong rival, the Russian oil general Oleg Lazarev, has his own plan for the end of the oil age. One that involves bringing Charlie and the rest of the world crashing down, all the better to ensure that Russia survives. To stop him, Charlie has launched one last bold plan to find one of the world's two missing supergiants in the last place left to look-the Arctic. This is his, and humanity's, final play.