Summary: In a remote, high-tech future, a young adult who used to be an elderly war veteran emerges from the rejuvenation process to find that his former self has chosen to have almost all of his memories expunged. The reason turns out to be, in an elaborate and unsatisfying way, tactical; by being almost without memory, he can be recruited by the enemy for a bizarre psychomilitary experiment in which a society similar to America in the 1950s, only with totalitarian overtones, is artificially reconstructed. Gradually recovering some of his memories, the veteran realizes that he is intended to disrupt and overthrow the experiment.