The U.S. Government needs more information about Iran's nuclear ambitions and scientific progress. A small company in the U.S. has developed a method to imbed a non-detectable 'Peregrine Computer Parasite' within normal email. Once inside a computer system it can collect needed information and then carry that secret information back out into the World Wide Web were it can be retrieved. During the investigation Alan Hast discovers how that this company has also tapped into the computer systems of several major corporations and with the industrial secrets in silently leveraging the stocks of these companies, and as a result making a fortune from stock manipulations. An investigation into these criminal's activities exposes that a Marine Corps pilot who has been missing in action over Cuba since the Bay of Pigs Invasion may have been murdered in the 1960's.