Today is a special day for the IAN prototype, a top-secret, highly intelligent android. His human colleagues from the Special Rescue Section have invited him to Los Angeles for the first time, thus accepting him as one of their team. But after an all-too-brief rest, he will be hurled into a nightmare... In a few hours' time. LA will be engulfed in a civil war that threatens to plunge the whole country into chaos. In the hellish heart of a city gone insane, IAN's somewhat idealistic heroism will be put to the test in the cruellest of ways...