American
troops meet with no resistance as they seize the rural Iraqi village of
Al-Taneen. They soon realize that what
they thought was an Al Qaeda hideout is actually a desert ghost town. When American Intelligence loses contact with
the unit almost immediately after receiving this intel, they decide to send in
an elite team of contract mercenaries to assess the importance of the
mysterious city.
The Aliens style team of fighters (including
an overqualified civilian medic with a background in zoology) feel a mixture of
dissatisfaction and relief over what they feel is a throwaway mission meant to
keep their controversial practices out of the spotlight. They soon discover that there are indeed
Iraqi rebels hiding out in the city, but these rebels are in no mood to
fight. The rebels are terrified of the
abnormal ruts in the desert sand, the strange oil markings on the walls and the
sounds that fill the air at night. But
only when the mercenaries begin to disappear, one by one, do they realize that
they are in a different kind of enemy territory.
So the
Iraqis and the Americans must team up to fight the creature beneath the dark
fin that swims through the sand, and only once they’ve cornered it against the
neighboring mountains do they learn that their mission is more complex than
they thought. A transmission reveals
that the CIA suspected the existence of this creature, and that they don’t want
it killed. Their mission is now to
capture the ‘sandshark’ and transport it to an American base. Why?
Because it has evolved a digestive tract that transmutes sand into
fossil fuels. And because it bleeds oil.
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