Susan Calvin is about to enter her second year as a psych resident at the Manhattan Hasbro teaching hospital when a violent crime strikes very close to homeWhen she was young Susan lost her mother in a terrible car wreck that also badly injured her father She now believes the accident was orchestrated by government officials who wanted her parents dead Susan has always known there was a faction of the US government that wanted to hijack her fathers work for military use Now it seems that faction is backAs she struggles to overcome her pain and confusion as well as deal with her studies Susan finds herself hunted by violent antitech vigilantes who would revert mankind to the Dark Agesand at the same time shes being watched very closely by extremists who want high-tech genocide Somehow she must find a way to stop them both.
