When a fellow scientist asks for Jack's help in locating the mausoleum of China's first emperor, the past collides violently with the present as Jack discovers his amazing visions are based in fact.

The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English secret service.

An artificial Intelligence from far into the future arrives to immediately cleanse the human species of millions of humans who are harmful to other humans.