Charles Lanigan is a brilliant scientist who has spent years working to create a cyborg combining humans with machines. His beloved only son Brian is diagnosed with fast-acting cancer in the blood. Doctors give Brian no hope of long-term survival. Charles uses his expertise and several other gifted scientists to secretly turn his son into the first living cyborg. Now Brian could potentially live forever. He chronicles his life through over a hundred years of wars and being a human brain in a synthetic body.