"Lieutenant" is the third in a series of near future SciFi/Thrillers. Their young heroine Ell Donsaii has a nerve mutation that makes her an athletic phenomenon, so fast that no one can keep up with her. In "Smarter" we learned how these fast nerve processes have also made her a genius. She dropped out of grad school after using her quantum theories to invent a means for enormously improving communications using entangled molecules. Back in the military to complete her USAF commitment, she must fend off even more attempts to kidnap her by groups wanting her skills. Then the People's Republic of China shoots down the US satellites over Asia in order to begin an invasion of Taiwan. Ell's new entangled communication chips could substitute for most of the destroyed satellite communications and observation, but, can she convince the brass to use them?