It was a world where the old states were long dead. Now men owed allegiance to vast world-dominating business groups rather than to countries. But the conflicts were just as bitter and violent as in the old days of war between nations.

Scientist Charles Grayner had knowledge of a secret which would give supreme power to any group in control of it. But in the Year of the Comet, in a world riven by murderous intrigues, such secrets were as dangerous as a nuclear reaction running out of control...