After a multi-city terrorist attack known as The Christmas Eve Massacre, the crypto-fascist New Freedom Party rises to power with the slogan: ?Lock out the foreigners! Lock up the criminals! Free the citizens!? The NFP makes good on its promise with super-penitentiary ships'massive floating strongholds that operate in international waters beyond borders and the reach of humanitarian watchdogs. The biggest of these ships is INFERNO, a behemoth five times the size of any aircraft carrier. Modeled on Dante's nine circles of Hell, INFERNO specializes in political prisoners'enemies of the State who have been ?disappeared? by the NFP. Among the disappeared is Sands Simon, an ex-Special Forces operative who uncovers a global conspiracy that could plummet the world into nuclear war.In Book One: God of Fire, Sands is imprisoned in INFERNO's Ninth Circle for blowing the whistle on illegal black ops engineered by his former mentor, Vice President Henry Brzinski. Sands? only way out is to rise to the top of the food chain in the gladiator-style battles INFERNO stages for the word's elite. His only hope is to see once more the wife and child he left behind.