A fortune in crude oil...

An aging drillship...

A sinister plot...

...and an active stratovolcano.

The fate of the RDS Olympia Explorer’s crew rests in the hands of two young grad students. Their technical knowledge, intuition and pure luck may be all that stands between the stricken drillship and an explosive end. A story about greed, corruption, and courage in the face of crisis, Mount Crude is a race to survive through one of nature’s most powerful forces.