Sander (Sandy) Pinard is caught-up in the millennium crunch between information technology and the highest levels of covert operations, political ambition and corporate greed. As an integral member of a clandestine communications sub-culture of the intelligence community, Pinard is teamed with Gloria Kelly in making the final connections to an ultra-secret ultraviolet satellite network that, when operational, will hand the most powerful in the nation, absolute power. But Pinard cannot do it without using and deceiving Elliot Bowman, the unwitting inventor of a super plastic material vital to the operation of the network, code name Violet Night. Elliot and his wife Julia are Pinard's old college mates and best friends. Trails of life, love, betrayal, death and treachery lead the players from the explosive beginning to the implosive conclusion.