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At twelve Fane Smith's IQ is off the charts, and since his father's murder at the hands of Watchers he and his mother have been prisoners in their own home. But Fane has begun to experience nocturnal visits from a man named Joshua who doesn't seem to register on the surveillance camera in Fane's bedroom. Joshua warns the boy that time is running out and that he must be prepared when the Watchers finally come for him. At the same time an autistic genius named Shep Ward is taken to visit Joshua where he is held stories below ground in a secret desert facility. Shep's mission is Joshua's murder, but instead he kills his keepers and escapes into a world he comprehends only through data he has been absorbing all his life like a human computer. Both Fane and Shep are drawn back to the place of their origin, Rastley, New York, a near-deserted town of unspeakable evil run by Morgan Rastley, the man who made it so. A professional hit man waits for Shep and an operating table for Fane. And death waits for every human being on earth if Morgan is successful in his quest.