For Evan Holloway, life is a series of careful routines and rituals. For a man who can't touch any object or person without getting a flood of impressions, that's the only way to live. He's not exactly happy, but he's content - until a single, shattering revelation turns his well-ordered life upside-down. Someone is trying to brand Evan a traitor, and they have evidence to prove it. On the run, away from the shelter of the Delphic Institute, Evan is captured. His only hope for survival is to escape. To do that, he'll do whatever it takes.Elijah Wexler walks out of work one night and straight into the path of an unbalanced man who takes him hostage. He soon discovers that the man isn't so crazy after all. Everything Elijah thought he knew about his job and his life was wrong. Together, Evan and Elijah must discover the truth.