When duty calls, wedded Military Intelligence Science Agents Jules Santros and 'Manda Mooney have no choice but to accept knowing that they may be the only ones standing between the Terran Consortium and its total destruction. At least those were the stakes in previous missions. This time, however, they face a different kind of challenge. A sociological/political threat promoted by a madman intent on reviving a deadly ideology from the past, one so toxic, that it cost the lives of millions in centuries past. To prevent a repetition of such a tragedy, of the total breakdown of Terran society, Jules and 'Manda risk their lives as they follow twin trails from Earth to the edge of known space to stop the new plague from engulfing mankind.