The 2000 edition of the United States Code represents the 75th anniversary of the Code. It is the 13th edition of the Code. This edition is a consolidation and codification of the general and permanent laws of the United States in force on January 1, 2001. It incorporates the legislation enacted subsequent to the 1994 edition and up to the end of the 106th Congress. It may be cited as "U.S.C. 2000 ed.”

Bureau 13 is the ultra-covert branch of the FBI assigned to handle supernatural criminals. The public doesn't know they exist, the President denies any knowledge of their actions, and not every Bureau 13 operative is a human being. Yet these heavily-armed federal agents are America's first, last and only line of defense against the growing tide of monstrous evil. When the nation is hit by the magical-equivalent of an H-bomb, every telepath in America drops dead and suddenly the Bureau is embroiled in a fierce war for survival. Ed Alvarez and his team of Green Berets and wizards hold nothing back as they struggle to save humanity from The Scion, an evil organization of powerful magic-users dedicated to nothing less than the complete destruction of the world. Hoo boy. Outgunned and outnumbered, the Bureau is forced to summon help from every other supernatural agency in the world and risk open warfare to stop America from becoming the other white meat...