The world is dying. People starve, the sea reclaims land at a frightening place, and civilization tries to hang on. Someone does not want to wait for the end that is coming naturally. Someone is trying to speed events along. June Blankenship, a One World Government soldier, is in the thick of it. An investigation into simple black-marketeering leads her into a web of political intrigue, violence, and artificial intelligence. Some on her team is not human - and she's afraid she knows who.