With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the president has been forced to establish his own clandestine groupCovertOne. Its activated only as a last resort, when the threat is on a global scale and time is running out.The Utopia Experiment When Dresner Industries unveils the Merge, a device that is destined to revolutionize the world and make the personal computer and smartphone obsolete, CovertOne operative Colonel Jon Smith is assigned to assess its military potential. He discovers that enhanced vision, realtime battlefield displays, unbreakable security, and nearperfect marksmanship are only the beginning of a technology that will change the face of warfare foreverand one that must be kept out of the hands of Americas enemies at all costs.Meanwhile, in the mountains of Afghanistan, CIA operative Randi Russell encounters an entire village of murdered Afghansall equipped with enhanced Merge technology that even the Agency didnt know existed. As Smith and Russell delve into the circumstances surrounding the Afghans deaths, theyre quickly blocked by someone who seems to have access to the highest levels of the militarya person that even the president knows nothing about.Is the Merge really as secure as its creator claims? And what secrets about its development is the Pentagon so desperate to hide? Smith and Russell are determined to learn the truth. But they may pay for it with their lives . . .