"Brothers at war. Mankind deceived. Hell on earth. A man face down in the dirt amid melting snow, a deep sense of unease but no memory of how he got there--Jason De Vere, once the head of a global empire. Found and briefly taken to a safe house, Jason's soon on the run again--there's a 50-million-dollar bounty if he can be taken alive. Thrown together with his ex-wife and a crusading young journalist, Jason begins a desperate search for answers. It's a race against time, a fight for survival--and the stakes are higher than he could possibly have imagined. 4 billion microchips--promising miraculous benefits--are being shipped to population centres around the world. And soon every human being on Earth will have to make a choice..."