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Daryl Fontana finds himself at odds against The Establishment, a conflict grounded in a childhood memory that launches him on a quest to be a force for good. A trip to Scotland, where he meets an intriguing man who encourages his counter-cultural ideas and cements his belief that his cause is revolutionary. As the players in his game become more powerful, so does his realization that every dominant ideology and religion in the world has been barbarously corrupted, wielded as weapons of intimidation to serve the interests of the few. He secretly champions a worldwide revolution, but how he undertakes this revolution attracts the attention of those in positions of control, and he is stalked by an operative who works for an anonymous team of string-pullers. Daryl entangles himself in the underworld of organized crime, landing him in a US jail, where he reflects on how he fell from grace. His deepest intuition is confirmed; he has been marked as a player in a resistance that someone or something bigger than himself wants to silence. For years Daryl kept hidden what mattered most to him because he understood the repercussions that could come with speaking truth, but he was acutely aware that keeping silent only exacerbated the internal conflicts he was dealing with. Daryl bided his time until he was confident enough to speak out and deal with any prejudice he might encounter, believing there would be no backing down once he started the open rhetoric. He waited until his youngest child had reached his eighteenth birthday, concluding his primary responsibility in laying a solid foundation by training, empowering, and teaching his children how to think for themselves. On the surface, his journey is one of redemption. He must establish his credibility in his community as a leader, defend his moral code, and cultivate honour within the dangerous walls of prison. But, on a deeper level, Daryl's journey unfolds to reveal how a mere man transforms himself through