Attorney David Baxter finds himself embroiled in a global race among nations to discover and develop the latest top secret technology that will propel the winner into a position of world dominance. Governments become frantic to win the competition for the technology that is easily more explosive than the atomic bomb; more far reaching than the Space Race. World leaders will stop at nothing in their desperate struggle to be the first with the astounding technology, even showing a complete willingness to plunge the world into the major holocaust of World War III. The Pallium Project is America's solution to this do-or-die effort that literally becomes life or death for many individuals, and possibly the entire world.