A hardened veteran of an obscure organization, reluctantly on vacation, drives into the Arizona desert foothills for a long-delayed celebration. Within the hour he's wounded and bleeding. A few miles away Suzanna Oxenburg plans an afternoon walk in the rain with her dog. A week previous, a million-dollar stallion vanished, the target of the perfect horse theft. Three seemingly unrelated events have converged, all earth-bound, untouched by technology, arising directly from human emotion and behavior. Thus begins a sea change in a powerful, principled man, secure in his dominion until he's flat on his back across the path of an equally uncompromising woman. Twenty-first century life floats on a digital current, key to every aspect of our lives. Years of experience in data retrieval and manipulation have given the author an appreciation for the depth of the information ocean and complexity of its connections. No digital secret is safe, no funds are untraceable, few...