Luke was on his way home from traveling cross-country with a group of young travelers in an old bus whose spaced-out leader plotted to destroy the International Moon Launch, when the investigative journalist Luke Mitchner is sent by his friend and editor to a small California mining town called the Pitt Stop. Shared puzzlement draws Luke to Wally Justin, a likable giant of many talents in Pitt Stop, where together they begin to unravel the high desert mystery of computers, characters, and bumps in the night. Soon they are embroiled in dangerous and far reaching circumstances as they get nearer to figuring out this technological enigma-they have stumbled into something far larger than ever expected. And with possible government involvement, who knows if it could be stopped or how far it will go.