It is 1995. The setting is the Northeastern Seaboard, a town ravaged by drugs, crime, and racial strife. Five hundred million years of evolutionary history and a century of war have led us to this time and place. On the eve of the new millennium, an outcast veteran, an old man who witnesses a murder, has 24 hours to answer two questions What does it mean to be human? And who can he turn to when the darkest forces of the universe are marshaled against him? As the day progresses, it seems that evolution has taken a wrong turn and that human beings are no longer in charge. Reptilian minds dominate the landscape. Will the most brutal and