Back To The Beginning. Max Sterling Adventures, #7

An ancient machine awakens. It wants him. When Max Sterling touches the core buried beneath the earth, his life ceases to be his own. The alien construct binds him, filling his mind with visions of Earth's true origins-and the cycle designed to erase humanity forever. With Chloe and Nick beside him, Max faces the merciless custodians of creation and destruction. They call him Keeper. They demand his obedience.
To obey is annihilation. To resist could kill him. From collapsing chambers below the surface to a vast alien ship adrift in the void, their fight rages across worlds both known and unknown. The cost of failure is nothing less than the end of mankind. And time is already running out. The fate of Earth rests on one choice-start reading now.