It's America, early in the Twenty-First Century...Howard Brennan, a brilliant but deranged ex-USAF colonel and nuclear engineer, seethes with rage over being publically cashiered from the service after clashes with superiors over policy. Adrift and embittered, nothing seems to matter to him anymore...except obtaining vengeance against the federal government which destroyed his once promising career. He has devised the perfect means to achieve that...