When counseled by his mentor that “every problem has a solution,” Alec never expected to find himself minutes from annihilation by the double threat of a hostile cyborg and a thermonuclear device on a short fuse. He’d also never anticipated that his gift of deductive genius could be a curse, leading to his mentor’s suicide and veering his life onto a collision course with a power-hungry bureaucrat bent on dangerously accelerating covert cybernetic research. With the help of the woman he grows to love and a loyal team of special intelligence operatives, Alec struggles to unravel the clues leading to the final, most difficult puzzle of his life: a battle where inner demons can be as dangerous as the enemy he fights, and the prize is nothing less than humanity’s survival.