Jack Slack returns, still on the upswing of his career and life, to take on the challenges of finding new technologies to fend off the impacts of a global energy crisis. Stakes are high, even higher than Jack realizes. With paths crossing invisibly, Jack's former lover, Evie, has been drafted into a counterterrorism task force that unmasks a global plot to disrupt the energy future right in Jack's backyard. Jack's life is again in the crosshairs as he stands between an assassin and the Governor who is announcing a fundamental shift in the future of global energy supplies.