"With the first presidential debate to be held on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota just a few weeks away, the focus of the nation is upon a young senator from California of Chinese descent who has begun to inexplicably surge in the polls in his bid to overtake the relatively popular incumbent president. So what does a meeting of a group of six engineers and three neurologists in the conference room at the university's Department of Neurology have to do with that debate? If there is a connection between the completion of a fascinating research project funded by an Iranian and conducted by the university and Minntronic, a local biomedical manufacturing company, what could it be? When contacts and associates of Dr. Jack Stevens, a neurologist and electrical/computer engineer, began to turn up dead, might he be the one man in America who can uncover the truth of what is going on?