One hundred and seventy-five years into Earth's future mankind takes its first steps into the stars only to have the greed of a few provoke the wraith of a fearsome alien race. Robert MacKesson is a Field Agent for IP Industries, the powerful corporation that financed the space boom. On a counter espionage mission when the aliens attack, he is injected with nanobots built from alien technology. These nanos keep him alive as the secret Mars base crumbles around him under the incredible power of the alien weapons. Now he must escape Mars and get the precious cargo coursing through his bloodstream back to Earth