When liberty has been lost, people in chains need a hero. The time is the future...a nightmare future of dictatorship and oppression. Shade-a mysterious man who has helped to liberate so many others-finds himself captured by the regime. Somehow, he must escape. And then begins a deadly game of cat and mouse. But who is the cat, and who is the mouse? An enslaved people, desperately seeking liberation, look for the man they call... SHADE.