The Guardians - To Save Us From Ourselves. They are the enemies of promise. They are our only hope. The Guardians: a world-wide cabal, ghosts in the global machine. Carefully selected men and women, all outsiders, yet all dedicated to the cause of stability. Their task: to stop science from running wild, by any means necessary. Vowed to secrecy, they operate on the fringes, walking in the shadows. Only they know what links a devastating explosion in Siberia in 1908 to a secret research facility in the Nevada desert in the final days of the second millennium. Only they know the truth. Only they know that....We Have Never Been Alone.

The Guardians are a world wide secret cabal caught up in a battle for the destiny of the human race. A battle fought between utterly alien beings who have watched humanity since the first civilisations. A battle where science could be our saviour or our nemesis. The Guardians must discover what links a nightmare incident during the Gulf War with an experiment being carried out in the rotting hulk of a power station on the South Coast. But first they must stop one of their number succumbing to a violent madness, protect another from an assault in cyberspace and bring back a third from a hopeless mission in Japan. Scattered across the world and with their loyalties divided it looks like the end for the Guardians.