Jonathan Knox's knack for intuiting hidden relationships among seemingly isolated events serves his Fortune-500 clients well, but when federal agent Marianna Bonaventure blackmails him into helping her, Knox's talent is put to the ultimate test. Bonaventure is investigating a Russian industrialist suspected of trading in WMD research, but together they uncover something far more an attempt to capture a microscopic black hole and harness its awesome power to transform the world—or end it!

When the six-year-old daughter of a billionaire industrialist is kidnapped, ueber-consultant Jonathan Knox and counter-terrorism agent Marianna Bonaventure must team up with an experimental artificial intelligence to find her, never suspecting the little girl is the key to a plot that could destroy the NSA—and kill millions of Americans in the bargain.