In the first volume of a trilogy, retired oil and gas consultant Sebastian Wyndham is thrust into a covert mission by a rogue British intelligence agent: recover five alien power packs to activate a mysterious device. Hunted by a shadowy agency and nearly killed several times, Wyndham beats the odds. When he finally triggers the device in a stadium of 80,000, a psychic awakening sweeps the crowd. Within weeks, the transformation spreads like wildfire—humanity sheds its destructive instincts...