A plot hatched in a chocolate shop. Paranoid quasi-government stooges. A major archaeological find in the heart of Appalachia. A clairvoyant girl who speaks truth to power. A hunt for terrorists. An Ecuadorian biophysicist who translates animal thoughts into human speech. The Sisterhood of the Ancient Mountains. An elusive nuclear truck cast in bronze and poured into candy molds. In Kenneth Butcher's rollicking literary techno-mystery, it all makes perfect sense.