A century ago, mankind created a machine called the Manus Dei System and used it to access the afterlife. We expected to be welcomed by God, but instead, It vanished. Now, amidst an endless war and the rise of a sprawling totalitarian UHF regime, the Deity has reemerged. Its followers rejoice. Its enemies prepare for a final conflict. And those who fear it seek to escape into augmented immortality. Daniel leads his army of Pariahs against the UHF as it fractures internally under its radical new leader, Atrione Tutamay. Lazarus, a dying mercenary, descends into the afterlife in search of his lost daughter, racing against time and fate itself.

And within the UHF, a soldier named Ivan Reaps begins to uncover the mystery of his birth and the possibility that he is far more than human. Every faction converges on the last remaining Manus Dei System-and they will stop at nothing to obtain it . or destroy it. Alliances will fracture. Hidden agendas will surface. And with every passing second, humanity draws closer to a collision with its God.