The next total eclipse of the sun over Peru is a harbinger of doom for the world.

After ten minutes of darkness will follow millennia of chaos.

Can anyone stop the wrath contained in The Sworski Codex?

Victor Sworski is an unscrupulous international grain trader who wants to monopolise the world's staple food supplies - and doesn't care for anyone who gets in his way.

Jim Covax, an unassuming newly-wedded accountant from Missouri, suddenly one day finds his young wife Mary has mysteriously disappeared.

After a series of dramatic events he finds himself lost in the South American jungle. After teaming up with an Australian archaeologist Dr Terry Johnson in Peru, Covax eventually discovers he has been dragged across Sworski's path.

While then threatened and humiliated by the manic billionaire and made to feel used and expendable, the humble Covax does in fact have an important thing to offer Sworski: one last chance to discover his human heart.

About the author: Paul Norris has an MA in communications and has been a freelance journalist and feature writer for nationally distributed publications including The Weekend Australian ( News Ltd) and PBL Magazines, etc. He has also been a lecturer and tutor in communications studies and journalism at two Australian universities.