SIS officer James Boyd has just been given the most dangerous assignment of his career: the MKULTRA case. An obscure cocktail of mind-altering drugs, MKULTRA is being used by the mafia to hypnotise its unwitting accomplices in murder, theft and espionage. But nobody had foreseen the devastating effects the drug would have on these people, who are effectively treated like laboratory mice in the deadly games played by the mob. Now, for the sake of the Service, and for the innocent people caught up in this mess, Boyd is determined to seek out the perpetrators and see that justice is done.