A US Air Force intelligence officer on temporary duty in the Far East accidentally stumbles on a terrorist plot by a group of North Korean dissidents targeting a US national laboratory with a weapon of mass destruction. The terrorists capture, then torture him, and then let him go---but in a psychotic condition.

He is admitted to a mental health facility in the southwestern US where the psychiatric treatment staff squabbles over the care of this mentally ill patient. Who is he? What information does he possess? Should he be on schizophrenia medications or antidepressants? What about other psychotropic medications? Does he really have paranoid schizophrenia? Is his life still at risk? What else is in danger?

The terrorists also argue among themselves. Should they now aim at a different target? Afraid of effective counter terrorism, they place someone at the hospital to monitor the situation.

In the microcosm of Dos Cerros State Hospital there are good guys and bad guys, but the categories cut across professions and maybe nationalities, too.

This book, written by a psychologist and former intelligence officer who has himself played many of the parts in this drama, is for anyone concerned about both American vulnerability to biological terrorism, and the care of mental illness in the US. (See About the Author).

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