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Everything changes on the day Angel receives a text message for her 30th birthday. Sender unknown: Happy birthday Angelique Angel realises she has not used the name since childhood while growing up in the Australian outback town of Alice Springs. She taps out a reply. Angel: Who is this?'Message failed. Retry.'It was a hindrance she did not need. Not on the day of her live television interview with the U.S. Secretary of State. The United States Nimitz class Super-Carrier, USS John Steinbeck has docked in Port Melbourne with a top secret agenda. Several Chinook Helicopters leave Steinbeck's hard deck and head inland. They are escorted by Black Hawk choppers from HMAS Canberra. At the same time, Angel's source and long-time friend, former SAS operator Nathan Masters, tracks the strange phone message to a location near Alice Springs. The phone is hacked and data is uploaded. Nathan destroys the phone, then suggests the journey to Alice Springs in search of the originator. Arriving at Alice Springs, Nathan and Angel are caught in an ambush and barely escape with their lives. Angel must now leave her former life behind. She is inducted into the ASIS Black Ops cell, Charlotte Station. After her training, she is mission deployed, and the catastrophic events of MILESTONE and PROJECT AMBER begin to emerge. Located somewhere at the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap, PROJECT AMBER must be destroyed. The last hope for the survival of life on Earth. Can they get there in time?