Dr. Thomas D. McClure, a Harvard professor of Linguistics, receives an unusual request from the government, specifically, NASA, about taking a sabbatical from teaching and undertaking a designated top-secret assignment..Robuku Makolu, aka Robby McKoy, native to an insignificant South Pacific Island and director of Remote Island Missions, is in San Francisco, CA, for an international conference, when a clairvoyant childhood friend he has not seen in forty years unexpectedly contacts...