The test of the interstellar spacecraft of the Earth consortium is sabotaged by a technology unknown to the Earth engineers, but not to the United Council for Developing Worlds. The alien organization has maintained its secret collaboration with United States President Edward Samuel and providing the technology to the human scientists from their home base on Earth in an effort to speed up the Earth's space program. However, with the discovery of this alien intrusion—the United Council's base on Earth, and the acts of treason by the President of the United States, the Earth is poised for one final conflict that is the sole fanatical dream of the one demented alien who has orchestrated it.
Young Soren Carlson, the son of the human-alien hybrids, Greg and Sarah, has discovered his new talent. He possesses the ability not only to influence the thoughts of another person, but to change them completely. If this power, or weapon, should fall into the wrong hands, it could change the balance of control in the galaxy forever for the one person who can harness the child's power. But in the hands of the right person, young Soren can save the Earth from the final conflict it now faces. It becomes a race for two life forms to see who can get to Soren first—his father, whose mind is struggling to return from a galactic void to his physical body on Earth, or the most feared alien in the galaxy, who has assumed the physical shape of someone very close to Soren...
