Two Americans, who have a successful healthcare software company, want to branch out into the European market seeking distributors in Italy and Spain. The Americans run on guts and nerve and little understanding of Europe. The Italian Giancarlo is from the stifling upper class of Rome, with unsavory political connections. He decides to steal the proprietary information from the Americans and use it to establish a new business. The Spaniard Enrico has a growing healthcare software business and sees the Americans and their products as complimentary and exciting partnership. Through negotiations...

A quiet murmur engulfs the crowd. The gentle music coming from the speakers is Cat Steven's Morning Has Broken. As the graduates enter, Aretha is in the audience, and the terrorist waits to strike. Moving from Europe, Malcolm and Aretha now live in Parker, Colorado. The Monschau shoot-out, vicious attack on Aretha, the German police capturing Ismael and the terrorist gang is history. Gary, brother of Jerry Rice, aka Ishmael the Terrorist, is now on the trail of Aretha. At C.U. Boulder, Gary Rice came from Oakland to escape his hometown. Being recognized as the brother of Jerry Rice, who...

A series of powerful earthquakes on the west coast simultaneously triggered a volcanic catastrophe destroying most cities, along with its population. Infrastructure, highways, telephone lines all destroyed. The president proposed a referendum to rebuild the West but was voted down by the East Beus lives in the west. Wearing protective creams and special clothing, like all the others, Beus is tormented, barely surviving with his empty emotive compass. Life is controlled by the self-imposed ZooCoo The Crying Body, an unusual species, arriving from thin air, assists pro-creation and child...