New York City lays in ruins. London has become the information capital of the world. Books have become the most secure way to store sensitive information. Nuclear winter has changed the landscape of the earth. A war between the USA and China has lead to international hostility. This is the world you live in.

Things have been happening recently, strange things. People are disappearing. Rumors are emerging of secret societies who have played politics from behind the scenes for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. An artifact is found in Aztec ruins whose origins are speculated to be African. In Antarctica seventeen scientists were found frozen with no hearts and no blood.