Publisher's Synopsis
In the year 2032, Dr. Lucas Stevens, a post-doc scholar at CalTech, is under contract with Boeing and DARPA on the military use of quantum computers. He's frustrated by the lack of progress with bureaucratic government oversight and large multinational company self-interests. His lover and partner, Dr. Lexa Lefebvre of SETI, detests war and thinks computer applications should be for peaceful and humane purposes. Her goal is to make first contact with an alien civilization in the Milky Way. Lucas and Lexa build a profitable commercial company, Tachyon Corporation. Despite domestic and foreign threats, their company thrives in the development of advanced quantum computers. Their first profitable project is called the 'Brain Bank'. The brain's neural structure is copied in multiple dimensions of time and space and stored in a compacted multidimensional computer database. Cryogenic companies, who have historically stored the brain for over a century, go out of business. In 2035, North Korea launches a short range ballistic nuclear missile to Kobe, Japan. It's the home of the Quantum Brain Project. It's the worlds' fastest and most accurate global intelligence network and largest database. Simultaneously, China launches twenty ICBMs toward several US cities. Five missiles dart through the trillion-dollar US missile defense shield. They destroy Los Angeles, Portland, Denver, the USAF 509th B-2 Bomber Wing in Warrensburg, Missouri, and the NSA's Computer Data Center in Springdale, Utah. The death toll climbs to several million people. Fifty-million will suffer from permanent radiation poisoning the rest of their lives. The CIA has reliable information that North Korea and China are targeting twelve more US metropolitan areas for additional strikes. President Katherine Long, of the Democratic Party, refuses to retaliate after the attack. Ninety percent of US Congress calls for a measured response with five US ICBMs. She calls on the United Nations to resolve the nuclear crisis. The American public panics and demands a new President and Congress. Millions of people in the US and other nations call for an all-out nuclear war against North Korea and China. Protesters march in cities with their own agendas on the next world war. The US Army plans a Top Secret program with Tachyon as prime contractor. Tachyon moves to a bunker facility in Silicon Valley, California. It's heavily fortified with a defense system that thwarts terrorists and nuclear missiles. Tachyon develops a new technology that controls minds at great distances through man-made barriers by a quantum-physics phenomenon called 'quantum entanglement'. In the aftermath, Tachyon completes its two year project on the development of a quantum computer named the Neurostar-2. It targets people's minds to instantaneously change their moods at the speed of light.
