A prisoner on death row has effortlessly escaped from the most secure detention facility on earth and is on the loose in the suburbs of Washington D.C. looking for someone. His target? A brilliant young computer scientist named Annalise McLean who has just been promoted to the cutting edge of the HomoGen Initiative, a company founded to control the breeding of the human species by growing its children for it.
However, the government of the Reunited States of America wants its prisoner back and has launched an intensive manhunt to accost him. For the prisoner is not only a deadly soldier, he also carries with him a secret so potent that its exposure will threaten to destroy everything both Annalise and the government have worked so hard to create.
In this early 22nd century tale of politics, violence, and decayed morality, in a world that has abandoned the work of children to scientists, Annalise must decide which is worth more in the end: her own demons and ideology or the truth of the prisoner's message.