The sun flickers for less than two seconds. Most of the world doesn't notice.
Eleven minutes later, ORACLE sends the first Priority One alert it has ever issued. A beam of energy from a distant neutron-star merger has been loading the sun, and in fourteen months it will erupt hard enough to sterilize the planet's surface.
There is a plan. It needs a fusion reactor science has called impossible, a ring of orbital weapons platforms that officially doesn't exist, and seventy-five magnetic generators built in nineteen countries before the clock runs out.
General Voss knows where the platforms are. Telling ORACLE is treason.
Marcus Cole has to hold a terrified world together long enough to try.