Welcome to the 2020s. Multi-national corporations control the airwaves, the government and maybe even our own thoughts. Sinister religious cults are growing in power day by day, and politicians are little more than media celebrities. In the polluted dustbowl of Middle America, Eddie Kalish makes a terrible mistake when he stops to help a pretty nurse stranded in the desert. Before long, he's mixed up in a dark conspiracy involving monstrous experiments on human bodies. Plunged into all-out corporate war over an alien artefact, this country boy is going to have to use all his skills to come out alive.