What could an assassination program begun by the Nixon administration during the Vietnam war, a malfunctioning camera on board NASA’s Voyager II space probe, and a successful attempt to break into the New York Federal Reserve possibly have in common? To Francis Moore, finding the answer is about to become a matter of life and death. Uprooted by a chance encounter from a promising career in the Marine Corps and thrust onto the front line of the country’s clandestine “war on terror”, Francis has few illusions left about the world and how it works. Frustrated by the intrigues of his own government, and determined to atone for his complicity in them, he embarks on a daring attempt to put an end to one of the more egregious of its excesses, only to find his plans thwarted by the intervention of a mysterious and highly determined enemy, whose motives he neither suspects nor understands. Caught in a rising tempest of murder, deceit and betrayal, Francis has no choice but to turn his talents to identifying his new assailants. From the streets of Manhattan and the country lanes of rural New England to the wilderness of Canada and far beyond, he soon finds himself dragged into the depths of a mystery that is as frightening as it is incredible, a journey that will open his eyes to the existence of something few could imagine, and fewer still would ever believe possible. A secret with the power to both resurrect the fortunes of a world edging ever closer to the brink of disaster, or tip it over once and for all.