Publisher's Synopsis
Prototype begins in an uncertain future, as Sam McCall, The federations most wanted, is hurtling through space toward Facility Zero, where he will serve out his sentence for crimes against the Federation. Upon arriving at the facility, Sam is given a tour by Alistair Brookes, the architect of the prison. He also meets Samuel, who saves Sam from a group of deep-space wreckers. Finally, Sam encounters Jessica who was a member of a planetary defence force until she accidentally killed the son of a high ranking Mars Federation commander in a drug raid and is sent to Facility Zero as revenge. Brookes invites Sam to join the security team, and when Sam accepts, he learns that Facility Zero is suspended above a black hole. Through a series of flashbacks, each of the characters backgrounds is revealed to have a dramatic past that has profound implications for the future of the station. Brookes is himself an inadvertent prisoner of the facility, cut off from a wife and young daughters. As the action of the novel culminates in a last great battle, Facility-Zero finds itself on the brink of utter annihilation, but a secret from Sam's past may hold the key to survival.
