When a safety check at a South African platinum mine fails to spot a major, unstable crack behind a support beam, trouble is inevitable. Yet, trouble was already brewing from so many directions, told vividly in this tale that gets right inside the heads of the characters – the stress, the fear, the pain and the suffering, those who have an agenda of their own and those who may have already lost control. Many will die in the disaster on Level 14, and more will be murdered both on the surface and deep in the mine when, finally, long suppressed evil runs unrestrained.

The cave-in also reveals hidden beauty alongside terror that no one could have imagined. Can anyone survive such unspeakable horror, trapped far underground with little hope of escape and when the members of the rescue team are heading towards being the next victims of the unexpected menace? Surely someone has the determination, the experience and the strength of character to make it back to the surface.