Summary:

An economic downturn has sent the United States into the throes of depression. Middle-class riots and a crack-like designer drug, Zap 37, rip into the social fabric. A paramilitary government cabal is determined to maintain America’s superpower status at any price. Their weapon: the DEUS machine, the computer brainchild of a mad genius. DEUS is empowered to create and relentlessly improve a “child” of its own, rendering it immensely powerful and incomprehensible to its creator...