Twenty-four hours ago, John Requin was a dead psychologist on the run from a government agency dedicated to destroying his kind. In a world where corpses are rising with perfect memories of their prior lives, there seems to be nowhere for Returners to hide... until John falls in with the Returner Underground, a small group of terrorists led by the psychotic Major Callahaghn. But wheels are turning within the system, and by the end of the day, John is going to find himself in a stranger position than he ever imagined.