Michael completed the Path, but what he found at the end turned everything he'd ever known about his life completely upside down. He barely survived, but it was the only way VirtNet Security could track down the cyber-terrorist Kaine and make the Sleep safe for gamers once again. However, the truth Michael discovered about Kaine is more terrifying than even the worst of their fears. Kaine is a tangent, a computer program that has become sentient, and Michael's completing the Path was only the first stage in turning Kaine's master plan, the Mortality Doctrine, into a reality.