In a burned-out village in Kosovo, two soldiers are struck down by a flash of blinding light... In New York, a doctor runs to help a stricken neighbor, only to be charged with the bloody murder of the man he came to save... In a Nevada laboratory, a cynical scientist analyzes a bizarre life form -- and discovers the impossible... All around the world the fabric of reality is unraveling. Scientists scramble to understand it. Ordinary people confront strange, terrifying phenomena. And an American doctor named Michael Aulden stands at ground zero in a war of the body, mind and soul -- as humankind must choose between the goodness that has always been ours, or the evil that has found a home on earth...