Dead Man's Switch

Der Erde steht eine Invasion von Aliens bevor. Der junge Lieutenant Conklin wird zu einem merkwürdigen Einsatz abkommandiert: Er soll ein Jahr lang in einem Bunker leben, um dort gegebenenfalls den bereits gestarteten Countdown zur Vernichtung der Welt zu stoppen.

Ben Conklin has been a loner ever since his parents died when he was twelve years old. This is one reason why General James Eiger selected him to spend a year buried in a bunker 11,000 feet below the Artic tundra, manning the controls of a doomsday device set up by world leaders after the Hubble space telescope spotted 11 spaceships heading towards Earth. The device is designed as a last-line deterrent against alien invasion and Conklin's job, shared with four other loners in four other bunkers, is to hit a dead man's switch on the bunkers control panel that prevents the doomsday device from going off and destroying aliens and mankind alike. At first, the job is easy, but as the aliens draw closer to Earth, and as Conklin grows closer to his subterranean colleagues, he begins to doubt the reliability of the doomsday machine. News from General Eiger becomes scarce, then Conklin's fellow guardians begin to fall victim to assorted mishaps. Conklin realizes that he carries the weight of

Ben Conklin est un solitaire depuis la mort de ses parents lorsqu'il n'était alors âgé que de 12 ans. C'est pourquoi le général James Eiger l'a choisi pour passer un an, terré dans un bunker, 11 000 pieds au-dessous de la toundra...

Ben Conklin, un lugarteniente de la fuerza aérea de los Estados Unidos, es asignado por un periodo de 1 año a un búnker a 11.000 pies (3.352,8 m) bajo Alaska.