Dallas in the near future–a city full of high-tech companies, sprawling tent cities, miracles, and dangerous secrets.

Eli's family thinks he just plays computer games with a group of harmless nerds called the Merry Men. But when he disappears, the CIA, an underworld ninja, and worse yet, World Tech corporate security start chasing him. Now the race is on as his family, a shady art dealer, a cloned superboy and a reborn Neanderthal try to find him in time.