Edward Henson is at the peak of his academic career when he and his wife Katie are left critically injured by a car crash during a blizzard. A mysterious figure appears at the historian's hospital bedside and offers him a Faustian Bargain - full recovery with chip implants upgrading his brain with all the knowledge of Mankind or the bleak alternative, voluntary euthanasia. But if Henson accepts he must break with all of his academic...