Desperation... Los Alamos nuclear weapons designer Mitch Weatherby is sentenced to a federal penitentiary after a botched raid on his home left him unjustly accused of treason and his beloved wife dead in his arms. His government betrays him, the justice system fails him, and his life-long friends abandon him. And hope? Plucked from that doom by mysterious North Koreans, he faces a world blinded to the truth by fanatical devotion to their leader, Kim Jong-il. There, Mitch must decide how far he is willing to go to save himself, his friends, and the world.