David Rheinbrucke had been called a throwback, a caveman, a Neanderthal as well as brows and Kong. His father had abandoned him when he was ten and his mother had died when he was a teenager. Now, as an adult and a college professor, he had to find the answers to his throwback appearance, but the world was not so easy now. A new ice age had taken the earth in its grip and was squeezing, hard."