Critical strike. The president has personally pulled Matt Bowlin in on this one, National Security crisis involved in the most advanced piece of technology ever conceived. Zero platform is about to become the first Orbiter weapon system operated by human/machine interface. Zeros Command Center has been razed to the ground, but the one person willing to become the first human prototype of biocybernetic engineer and survive the attack. Now Doug Buchanan is running for his life, I wanted man all three fronts, by America's enemies determined to destroy zeros capabilities, by Traders and side Washington plot in the Hostile takeover of the US government, and by the only individual who can save Buchanan in America from the unthinkable.