With Benton Quest and Race Bannon attending a phenomenology conference in the Himalayas, Jonny and Jessie are forced to impersonate their fathers in Questworld when Jeremiah Surd launches a two-pronged attack on the Quest compound - and Hadji's mind.

Alice Starseer returns to Earth to lay her grandfather to rest. But Jeremiah Surd is determined to find out what she's learned.

On an archaeological expedition in Borneo, the Quest team run into a giant creature, reputed to savagely attack from all directions at the same time.

Jeremiah Surd taps into and gains control of the cetacean communications internet, prodding cetaceans worldwide into savage attacks; the Quest team enlists the help of Captain Havell to stop his plan.