A few days before Christmas 1963, a five-alarm fire at a storage plant in West Dallas touches off an explosive reaction that will last decades, incinerating the beliefs of millions, and shattering the faith we have in our leaders.

But for a team of government psychics and ex-Marine Mark Reynolds, it is personal. His memory, lost in an accident years earlier, is suddenly returning. However, he is recalling the future as well as the past.

In an impossible race against time, going both directions, he must protect those who have protected him, so that the truth can be revealed. But, at what cost?