Frank Dillon is a hard-nosed private eye with a secrative past that could drive a Mormon to drink. When an old friend and partner from his time in the CIA's secretive Project Stargate is murdered Frank takes the case. And why not, after all his friend did ask him to. before he was killed. His tortured past will rise up and meet him as he struggles to save the daughter of the only woman he's ever loved from a fate worse than death, and the world from a diabolical madman who will wants to control people not through violence or subjugation, but by controlling their very minds and removing their free will. If Frank fails the world will fall into a domination so complete that it's citizens won't even be aware that their choices are not their own. Can he stop the world from becoming a fuge state? Absolution can't be found in the past, only in the uncertain future.For more books and information about Mike Venezia please visit his webpage at: http://home.

comcast.net/~mikeven/site/?/home/Other books by Mike VeneziaA Witch's WhimA Warlock's WillBones in the ClosetAn Wandering Wind (short story collection)The Ever Brightening Path (short story collection).