p.Rich Preston, a fifty-seven-year-old unemployed electrician stumbles through a shattered life, racked with guilt for causing his son's death. Traveling home through a vast and remote Nevada desert, he encounters a massive swarm of intelligent nanotechnology that implants a grain of inexplicable machinery into his brain, one which slowly gives birth to an alien artificial intelligence. As Rich struggles to understand the millions of images being downloaded into his mind, he gradually learns to communicate with the implant. It reciprocates - in a hauntingly familiar voice-his dead son.ppPursued by the Department of Homeland Security, Rich uses the alien machinery in unimaginable ways to evade and escape. But as foreign powers wait in the shadows to snatch him for their own nefarious plans, his remaining children become pawns in a ruthless game of catppand mouse. ppForced into a deadly showdown with two world superpowers, Rich uncovers the startling secrets behind this alien presence. W