America has been placed on "trial" by the "Friends of the Planet": a powerful, but secret organization, and found guilty of waste and degradation of the planet's resources. They will use their orbiting satellites to send down a deadly EM frequency, which will go through the Wi-Fi towers, killing the consumers residing in "wired cities", leaving the farmers and ranchers to feed the rest of the planet.

The Antagonist is a diabolical, brilliant Bavarian Prince for whom death of his enemies is not nearly enough. But is it all madness when the elimination of three hundred million people might save seven billion.

The plot is as much a war of words and wit as a battle of weapons.

It is a race against time, as Paul Decker - along with is ex-wife, an east European hacker and Chechen fighters – chase Prince Hansel through Europe but remain one step behind to the very end.