What he found at the end turned everything he'd ever known about his life and the world completely upside down. He barely survived. but it was the only way VirtNet Security knew to find the cyber-terrorist Kaine and to make the Sleep safe for gamers once again. Unfortunately, the truth Michael discovered about Kaine is more complex than anyone anticipated, and more terrifying than even the worst of their fears.rnKaine is a Tangent, a computer program that has become sentient. And Michael's completing the Path was the first stage in turning Kaine's master plan, the Mortality Doctrine, into a reality.rnThe Mortality Doctrine will populate Earth entirely with human bodies harboring Tangent minds. And the takeover has already begun.rnBut the VNS would rather pretend that the world is perfectly safe. So it's up to Michael and his friends to root out Kaine and stop him before, one person at a time, humanity falls prey to artificial intelligence and its sinister desire to run our world.