The explosive next chapter of the JauntWorld series begins now! Special Agent Greg Mason, head of the United States of North America's premier counter-espionage unit within the Intelligence and Investigation Agency, must probe the clandestine mystery that is Project Ether, a dark energy superweapons program rooted in the forbidden research of a rogue Iranian physicist, seemingly employed by the sinister Confederation of Independent States, based in the former Soviet Union.
But all is not as it appears. With Mason and his team of IIA agents tracking the clues of Project Ether's origins--from the remnants of North Korea, the deserts of Iran, the decks of a fast-attack submarine to the wastelands of Antarctica--a shocking disaster leads them to the inescapable truth: an enemy within the Confederation is already armed with Project Ether, and the countdown to war between two old superpowers has begun...