The Cold War is over and companies are scrambling to acquire high technology and open new markets in the former Eastern Bloc countries. Jake Adams, a former Air Force intelligence officer and CIA agent, is hired by a Minneapolis defense contractor to find its senior tech rep missing in Germany, and a possible leak of its most sophisticated computer chip. Jake discovers companies in a brutal fight to develop the most powerful computers ever conceived, and with economic gain as a deadly interest. Jake must struggle to survive in a world where profits are more important than past ideologies.