A young man finds himself sitting at a bar, nursing a perfectly chilled vodka martini. The world around him buzzes with life, yet he feels a disquieting emptiness--a void where memories should be. He has no idea how he ended up there, and worse, he has no recollection of anything at all.

His only clues are a wallet, a set of keys, and a wad of cash. As he rifles through the wallet, the pieces of a puzzle begin to emerge--a name, Franklin Johnson, a driver's license with an unfamiliar address, and an appointment card with a psychiatrist scheduled for the following day.

With nothing but a tangled web of possibilities, he sets off on a journey to rediscover his identity. What he unearths is far more sinister than he imagined: a labyrinth of deceit driven by greed and powered by an insidious, unchecked technology. Franklin is about to find out that some truths are more dangerous than ignorance.