It started with the war on terror.

Then they began to take away our freedoms to protect us.

Now ordinary citizens are helpless as governments of the free world engage daily in massive worldwide surveillance and data collection abuses that includes violating civil liberties and infringing on the constitutional rights and freedoms of their own innocent citizens. Government outsourcing of this spy network to private enterprise has brought even greater abuses. And only one man stands in the way of an even greater evil. Private investigator Rory Mack Steele finds himself locked in a deadly battle against a sinister force pursuing a hidden agenda. An agenda that jeopardizes the future of the entire world. And hanging in the balance is the life of one innocent young woman, The Echelon Mind, a high tech, hybrid tool that brings global surveillance and intrusion to heights never imagined.