Michael completed the Path. What he found at the end turned everything hed ever known about his lifeand the worldcompletely upside down. He barely survived. But it was the only way VirtNet Security knew to find the cyber-terrorist Kaineand to make the Sleep safe for gamers once again. And, the truth Michael discovered about Kaine is more complex than they anticipated, and more terrifying than even the worst of their fears. Kaine is a tangent, a computer program that has become sentient. And Michaels completing the Path was the first stage in turning Kaines master plan, the Mortality Doctrine, into a reality. The Mortality Doctrine will populate Earth entirely with human bodies harboring tangent minds. Any gamer who sinks into the VirtNet risks coming out with a tangent intelligence in control of their body. And the takeover has already begun.