In the time when the threats of atomic warfare appeared almost daily in the newspapers, Kevan MacGreene found himself looking for a job at a strange company called Troubleshooters Inc. Over there he learned of gneisses, rocks made of thin layers of minerals, and a gnome named Alviss, one of the finest gneiss-makers in the world. MacGreene also learned that gnome's masterpiece gneiss was destroyed as a result of an atom bomb testing and he is now on the verge of declaring open war against all mortals. So Kevan MacGreene becomes the chosen one as he goes on a world saving adventure.