With the first presidential debate to be held at the University of Minnesota just weeks away, the nation is focused on a young senator from California of Chinese descent who has begun to inexplicably surge in the polls in his bid to overtake the popular incumbent presisdent. What does a meeting of engineers and neurologists at the university's Department of Neurology have to do with that debate? What's the connection between the completion of Iranian-funded research conducted by the university and Minntronic, a local biomedical manufacturing company? When associates of Dr. Jack Stevens, a neurologist, begin to turn up dead, he might be the one man who can uncover the truth of what is going on.