Jerant Perdue is unusual, nothing less than a genius. Not that he was born that way. At the age of nine he was taken to undergo the ‘treatment’. Except he was not the only one. Twelve years later Jerant seems to have achieved little – in work and in life. But secretly his project progresses to a breakthrough. Yet all the while he has not gone unnoticed. A covert organization known as the Group have big plans for him, doing everything to ensure his cooperation. Since this is, after all, supposed to be the work of his life – in preparation for the greatest catastrophe to face humankind. Only, Jerant has other plans....