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=Book Contents= Chapter 1 - Tuesday, September 8, 2003. The server array at Antler Network Services is mysteriously disconnected from the internet. Network administrator Joe Daonet is on duty and reconnects the cable. Website developer Brian Kaplan has a close encounter with an "eggplant". The next day, Brian leaves Joe a mysterious coded message.

Chapter 2 - Friday, Sept. 11. Brian and Joe officially become members of the team selected for the new pet project of Dr. Anthony Geisler, Director of Operations for Antler Network Services. Everyone associated with the project seems to be infected with a strange kind of forgetfulness.

Chapter 3 - Saturday the 12th. Joe informs his new boss, Dr. Chloe Meade, that the artificial intelligence-enhanced software for the new project has taken over nearly all of the available computing resources of the Antler Network Services server array. Joe is alarmed to find that Chloe is also showing bizarre behavior and working compulsively on the new project. Joe resolves to figure out why involvement with the new project is driving everyone crazy.

Chapter 4 - Sunday. Joe is able to engage Chloe in a search for evidence that network security at Antler Network Services had been compromised on Tuesday when the network had been mysteriously taken off line.

Chapter 5 - Monday. Joe's gets evidence that data on the company computers has been altered and that some mysterious force has been able to erase important parts of his memories.

Chapter 6: Joe goes to a meeting with Geisler in which Anthony orders him to go to Ormuz Computing. Joe goes to that company and gets cutting-edge microchips that he brings to Antler Network Systems. After that, he goes to visit a psychiatrist.