Byron Shaw can track and find anyone on Earth. Except the people who tried to kill him.The Lattice-humanity's most staggering creation. It allows its users to see and experience the past and present anywhere in the solar system. You can witness Shakespeare's first production of Hamlet, soar above the rings of Saturn, or take in the Sermon on the Mount. But more than that, it allow you to see the thoughts and feelings of anyone you 'jump' into. Anyone can access it. Privacy no longer exists-the Lattice enables anyone to re-live any moment of your life.

Most people love it. Some want to destroy it.Colonel Byron Shaw has just saved the Lattice from the most dangerous attack in its history. Now he's been tasked to find out who launched it, but there's a problem: the conspirators have somehow managed to keep their identities secret, even from the Lattice. Made famous by his heroics, Shaw will have to solve this mystery with the world watching-including the people he's looking for. But the one question he can't allow himself to think is starting to eat away at him . does the Lattice deserve to be saved?The answer may cost him his life.