Michael Dolan is a stoic perfectionist and former Special Operations combat pilot with a dark and labyrinthine psyche and troubled past. While working a staff job at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. he is approached by the Central Intelligence Agency with an improbable request-to help them forestall impending terror attacks in Europe. He agrees and is sent undercover to Paris, France, a place from his past marked by tragedy. As his beyond-black, deep cover role in Operation EXCISE evolves, Dolan begins to realize that of all the demons he must prevail against, the most terrible are those from within. Devolution is Book One in The Devolution Trilogy, a psychological spy thriller series.