Docked at a prison spaceport during a riot, an assassin with a holographic face boards RACHEL Waters' freighter, intent to collect the remaining Gemini ticks, nanocomps capable of changing a man’s identity, from the black-market gang who’d lifted them from top-secret Alliance labs. She's never sure exactly who JACK is nor his true goal, though she’s sure he’s not who he initially claims to be. Her father, the admiral, tells RACHEL supercop JACK Luminous is dead, and even JACK admits...he’s not JACK LUMINOUS.

      No matter what the I-Marshal feels for RACHEL, JACK knows he must return to the Alliance and execute the man responsible for the security leak at the Alliance labs, RACHEL’s own father. JACK knows better than to fall in love with the admiral’s daughter.