When a bomb goes off inside Lookout Forces' own Earth base in the Smoky Mountains, James Scarborough and Yanna Netherlands are sent on a desperate cloak and dagger mission across the galaxy to infiltrate the inner sanctum of the High Priests of Xenorzede, sport the clock to find a way to remove the most pervasive and insidious psychopolitical plot that world has faced. Once Lookout Forces officials back on Earth find out that James Scarborough besides has been implanted, it seems the last hope is gone.