Graduate student Arthur Adams is perfectly content to sit in his office grading papers, but when his adventure loving faculty advisor Dr. Richard Stoneman offers him an opportunity too good to pass up they're off to the Zagros Mountains between Iraq and Iran.
Can Arthur survive the murderous intentions of a shady oil corporation, a team of international mercenaries, Iranian special forces commandos, and a monster that inspired myth and legend, long enough to make a discovery that shakes the foundation of History as we know it?