Publisher's Synopsis
Losing the computer identification which regulates his daily life, Robert Goodnoe becomes a 'blackout'. He flees a legal system without due process which would imprison him. At Five Rivers in Oregon's coastal mountains, he finds a refuge. He vows to return and undo the injustice he and others have endured. However, he finds anger and suspicion from blackouts who believe him there to spy on them. Barely tolerated, he learns the meaning of Bloodstone. The domestic terrorist plot aims at punishment rather than reconciliation. With a woman he has come to love, he flees the forest enclave to forestall the attack directed mostly at Portland. Radical terrorists prusue them to silence them. He finally returns to society but not without some traumatic setbacks.
