Onan Earth that is choked with pollution, economic stagnation, and a population exceeding seven billion, the World Government struggles to maintain order. Space station Island One is the one true hope that mankind has, but the multinational corporations that control it are more concerned with destroying the government than saving the planet.

David Adams is the finest (and most secret) citizen of Island One. He is the perfect physical specimen, immune from all Earthly diseases, an Adonis with the brain of one of the most advanced computers of the age - and the Corporation's best kept secret in their bid for global power.

But there is one inherent defect that David's makers did not foresee - his unquenchable thrist for knowledge. This need will drive him to the squalor and fading beauty of a dying Earth...where his actions will rock the foundations of the world and beyond...