The Ascendant Project

Numbers don't lie. Governments do.

Garrett Reilly, at 26, has few worries in life: smoking marijuana, playing video games, and making a killing as the top employee at a Wall Street brokerage firm. He has a special skill: he recognizes patterns where ordinary people see only chaos. And that's how he sees a torrent of U.S. government bonds being offered all at once on the market, which would cause the ruin of the American economy... But this could represent something even more serious.

There's a war raging, and no one has noticed. Stock market crashes, massive real estate devaluations, chaos, and destruction of Google servers. Undoubtedly, a powerful enemy is behind all these actions. And to combat this threat, the Armed Forces need someone different, someone prepared for more complex challenges in more difficult times. Amidst a world of uncertainty, the big question remains: is Garrett Reilly the right man to save the United States?