When Guardian Tom Rogers agreed to participate in a top-secret energy experiment on a remote Hawaiian island, he didn't expect to use his combat skills. But under an all-out guerrilla assault, the experiment goes awry-and Tom literally vanishes. McKay won't believe one of his boys is dead until he sees the body. But a world-shaking new technology is at stake-the secret to non-atomic conversion of matter to pure energy. With it, America could reestablish proud independence. Without it, she faces certain destruction!