What could an assassination program begun by the Nixon administration and a malfunctioning camera on board NASA's Voyager II space probe 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. In an attempt to atone for his complicity in one of the more egregious of the CIA's covert operations, he resolves to expose the program, only to find his efforts thwarted at the last minute by the intervention of a highly determined "third party," 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 before it is too late. From the streets of Manhattan and the country lanes of rural New England to the wilderness of Canada and far beyond, he reluctantly 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 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.