At the height of Victoria's reigN, a scientific expedition to Mars has vanished and the daring rescue mission is now a race against time and space. When control is wrested from fellow scientists and given to a heroic crew of Her Majesty's Navy, can the two groups work together to save the men of the first voyage? Amidst an uneasy truce between men of science and men of action, the secret expedition to Mars begins, and makes an incredible and terrifying discovery.