On a lonely Arizona highway ATF officer Gaston Duval witnesses the murder of a scientist out of Los Alamos National Lab. The murdered woman is carrying his cell phone number and that of his dead fianc�e. As Duval tries to make sense of it all he is drawn into a vortex of murder, betrayal and treason at the highest levels of power. A group of scientists have unlocked a secret that guarantees unlimited energy for all and its practically free. A deadly international cabal with entrenched interests in the status quo will stop at nothing to suppress the new technology. As the clock ticks down to a possible future paradise or imminent nuclear holocaust, Duval and the woman he loves are the only ones who can stop the cabal, and the answers will lie in his own tortured past.