When his plans for a quiet life are upended, Hamilton DeShear decides to use his attackers' most powerful weapons against them - by accessing Angelus Genetics' artificial intelligence database and using himself as a human guinea pig to locate and destroy every element of their vast, criminal operation. But the AI systems require access to his own consciousness, so DeShear will know everything Hauser knew - and every evil thing Hauser planned to implant in his brain. DeShear might be able to destroy Angelus Genetics, but he also might be walking into the very trap that Hauser wanted him in all along.If successful, DeShear hopes to reestablish a normal life for himself and those around him. But even he wonders: is a normal life even possible at this point?.