Bass, Jefferson

Dr. Bill Brockton has been called in on a seemingly routine case, to exhume a body and obtain a bone sample for a DNA paternity test. But when the coffin is opened, Brockton and his colleagues, including his graduate assistant Miranda Lovelady, are stunned to see that the corpse has been horribly violated.

Dr. Bill Brockton teams up with a local librarian to investigate a possible link between the murder of a retired scientist, high levels of radiation detected in a number of Oak Ridge residents, and the Manhattan Project.

Antropologist Bill Brockton is called to a cave in East Tennesse when a thirty-year-old corpse, preserved into an almost perfect mummy, is discovered, and soon Bill finds himself pulled into a local feud and an ecological mystery that is baffling scientists.