Sometime in the near future, paraplegic prison inmate Matt Mills meets quot The Board quot of Satoshi-Telefair Industries, who thank him for joining the Program Under pressure and with a promise to make him walk again, Mills agrees to volunteer He is injected with a synthetic nanomaterial and suffocated, only to wake up with restored use of his legs, yet alone in a steel cell in the first spoke of an experimental apparatus - The Wheel A series of assailants inflict a multitude of damage to Mills body and torment his mind, yet the synthetic nanomaterial not only restores his damaged organs, it re-engineers his strength The experiment might be designed to kill, but Mills is determined to survive - and get back to his daughter before The Board finds her first