Keith Baker crawls from the Afghan battlefield wounded, not from enemy combatants, but from the blood of innocents staining his hands. Determined never to fight again, he returns home to Virginia and devotes his life to studying the human mind at BioMinds Neurobiological Research, whose memory-modifying nanotechnology just might hold the key to silencing his war-torn memories.

Moving mechanically through life, Keith unexpectedly stumbles upon Allie Grossman, an aspiring artist, who awakens his interest in living. Behind the spirited young woman looms an evil presence — her impetuous drunkard of a father, Senator Bob Grossman. The 2020 presidential candidate has thrown his vast fortune behind BioMinds’ research and is steering the company down a nefarious path.

Recognizing he can’t win the election, but unwilling to yield in his quest for supremacy, Bob Grossman unleashes a monumental new threat upon the world — nanogerms. These nanorobots, transmitted through the air like a virus, infect and seize total control of the human mind, thereby rendering all those infected as pawns in the politician’s game…or worse.

With free will in peril, Keith confronts his painful past and enlists the help of Tim Paulson, a tech-savvy war buddy who had delivered Keith safely from the battlefield a decade earlier. With Tim and Allie by his side, Keith casts aside his vow to never fight again and combats the senator and his nanogerms with a human-altering device so controversial and so unpredictable that the results of success could be as tragic as defeat.