Zeno's Paradox, was inspired by the philosophy of the novelist Ayn Rand.
Howard Rhodes' father was a renowned physicist. He and his wife were killed in a suspicious car accident when Howard was fourteen years old. Howard is now sixteen and living on his own as an emancipated minor. He is also an intellectually gifted and well-adjusted teenager whose mother stimulated his love for learning, explained Christianity's fatal flaw to him, and taught him that his most valuable asset was his brain and his ability to reason.
In school, Howard deals with a challenge from a classmate who is a class bully, and who is making everyone's life miserable. He also entertains his classmates and stuns his math and physics teachers when he unravels the error in the logic to Zeno's famous Paradox, which has had scientists baffled since 400 BC.
Howard's interest in physics leads him to investigate various possibilities regarding small particles, and he attracts everyone's attention, including Stefan Nacouski's who is a sleeper al Qaeda agent living in the United States, when he discovers a new source of energy.
Not only does Howard's new source of energy eliminate the need for burning fossil fuels, but also, he can create a particle beam shield that will protect the United States and its allies from a Ballistic Missile attack. Unfortunately, this same device can be refined to create a beam that will silently kill hundreds of innocent people. Stephan will resort to anything to get his hands on Howard's Killing Machine.
