Former astronaut Stan McPherson, frustrated by the sudden and inexplicable liquidation of NASA just as humankind stood on the threshold of interstellar Space, uses his own funding to begin building the starship prototype that the public didn’t want. But when he discovers that his work has placed him across purposes with, and in the crosshairs of, an alien superpower bent on enslaving a helpless, grounded Earth, his ship building project suddenly becomes a hide-and-seek, cloak-and-dagger race against time. (Publisher website)