Don't fear the fire. Fear what comes after.
New York is destroyed in a terrorist attack. Millions die, and the perpetuators vanish into smoke, undetected.
An unimaginable surveillance network is constructed, made of nanobot-based cameras that blanket the skies. Every recorded. Every filmed. America is now under 24/7 surveillance from coast to coast. A disaster like New York will never happen again.
Viktor is an intelligence analyst with a dream job at the Pentagon. He's the nation's cop, using the nanobot cameras to solve crimes. But something is going wrong. The nanocams are transmitting bizarre scenes to his video feed – events that have never happened, images that seem to be from another world, things that freeze his marrow.
Are the videos being doctored? Or is something far stranger - and far more sinister - going on?
Viktor stands at the edge of the Vanadium Dark, an undreamable new era in human history...and it might already be too late to stop it.