WHEN THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE -- One week before the end of the millennium, the microprocessors controlling America's top-secret strategic defense satellite network fail, rendering the network useless and the country vulnerable to attack. Is the Millennium Bug to blame? As experts scramble to defeat the problem, one mad genius and his small army of doomsday mercenaries set in motion a plan to use the Y2K bug to commit the crime of the millennium.

If his plan succeeds, the world's financial systems will be left in ruins. And worse, an accidental shutdown of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and nuclear reactors will unleash an ecological catastrophe of global proportions. With the seconds ticking away, Washington throws all of its resources into a desperate battle to save the country -- and the world -- from The Millennium Project.