Stuart Ashley looks like any other down-on-his-luck 50-something, he is however a gifted engineer. He encounters a strange phenomenon in his workshop when a spanner he drops floats in mid air. His brain goes into overdrive as he tries to figure out how such a break in physics could be possible. His experiments eventually prove that gravity is not a singular force and that it can be harnessed.. This radical breakthrough in science could propel current technology 100 years into the future. Despite scientific disbelief and resistance, his discovery is eventually accepted , then the political and economic interests of companies and countries comes into play. Oil will become redundant and most military weapons systems obsolete. The UN tries vainly to hold world order together and Stuart become a target for kidnapping. A British extraction from a US detention centre goes horribly wrong leaving him fighting for his life in Canada, a dystopian outcome is inevitable unless sanity can prevail. Where was Edmund Burke when he was most needed?