It rises in the east, casting its golden brilliance over the globe. Melting the winter snows and growing the summer crops. Until the strange days begin.
Solar flares erupt and disrupt communications.
But the weary, frightened people of the world do not know that the solar storms are only part of the story. From Japan to Spain to California, the most brilliant minds in science are scrambling to interpret the phenomenon. Michael Lieberman has been contacted by the CIA's chief scientist, a woman frozen out of Washington's inner circle. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, in a season of heat and famine, death does not just come from a searing sky. It comes from the darkness of the human heart.