"The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space." Carl Sagan Secret, alien operatives have spent decades infiltrating humanity; government, military and key positions in the populous to prepare the world's population for control and mass slavery. The planet's mineral resources notwithstanding, the most viable commodity on the planet is it's people and the best way to control them is a one world government. But with the arrival of Jack Steele's, Task Force Lancer, the alien operatives are desperate for a way out and will stop at nothing to prevent their capture. A global nuclear war threatens the very survival of humanity and the existence of Earth, prompting a spy-vs-spy game of cat and mouse, forcing Jack Steele to play an entirely new role... No one knows what they are capable of until they are pushed to the breaking point... desperate times call for desperate measures and heroes are born under pressure. But life and death is a roll of the dice for Jack, his crew and his extended family, with evil and danger lurking in the most unlikely places. Some may not survive...