***CATCH'S editor, Patrick J LoBrutto, has worked with Stephen King, Walter Tevis, Eric van Lustbader, and has won the World Fantasy Award for editing. He is also the editor on all of the DUNE books*** Catch Harris is a troubled man. During a powerful winter storm, he witnesses the shocking abduction of his waitress, Hallie Baker, by a group of well trained men in the parking lot of a local diner. Reluctantly, he follows them to an isolated cabin just north of Lake Tahoe , where he discovers that Hallie is the subject of an intense interrogation. After a daring rescue, he and Hallie Baker run for their lives, discovering along the way that the package, recently sent to her by her father is what these men are after, and that they will do anything to retrieve it, because, carefully concealed within it is a power the human race is simply not ready to wield.