When Joel Osbourne, the Director of the Pentagon, confronts his worst, deepest fears, things move very quickly at lightning speed. In a moment, his world is turned upside down. In the blink of an eye his identity taken over by a replica or Clone. He didn't know what was coming to him. He was the kind of man that kept too many secrets and trusted no-one, accept for Rihard Burke, a Security Aid to the Pentagon Council. He knew that scientists were cloning human beings, but cloning half human and half of something else, alien, from another world ... How could he even ever possibly know that his only friend, Richard, someone he trusted, betray him? This was the ulimate, catalytic question that burned into his mind while his friend, Richard, was actually his enemy. While he was dying and his last thoughts.