Jake Thomas Fischer, founder and CEO of Fischer Technologies, Inc., and his team have made an astounding breakthrough: bio-chips. Computer chips based upon bio-technology and using proteins to process information have the promise to break the Silicon Wall, to go beyond the point where silicon chips can no longer get smaller and faster, and to provide enough processing power to put the equivalent of a Cray - the world's fastest computer - on every desktop. As Jake and his team celebrate the final breakthrough in their design, they do not know that they are at the center of what will become an international conflict to control their technology, a conflict that will end many of their lives and find others battling to avenge them and protect their work. From the halls of power in Berlin to secret basement war rooms at the CIA and FBI, to the streets of Paris, the battle rages. And at the center is a lone man, Jake Fischer - a man who believes he has lost everything, and so is willing to risk anything to uncover and destroy those who have attacked him.