Jim Holland was just an average, hardworking computer engineer. Then he volunteered to help the FBI crack an industrial espionage ring. And nothing was ever the same. A peaceful, contemplative man, with a black belt in aikido, Holland's charter is to develop a state-of-the-art supercomputer. Then he finds himself embroiled in a deadly game of high-tech espionage with foreign agents in California's Silicon Valley. Danger and deceit follow Holland from his office in San Jose to danger in the fog-shrouded streets of San Francisco's Chinatown, from the snow-laden mountains of Lake Tahoe to the sparkling blue waters of Monterey Bay, and from the wooded hills of Marin County to the splendor of the Golden Gate Bridge. Holland's martial arts mentor, Jack Wadahara, himself a high-ranking aikidoist, prepares Holland for a final confrontation with his foreign antagonists. Wadahara offers his help, but Holland refuses. Will he regret that decision?
