The year is 2008.
Financial titan Beirsdorf Klein has just imploded in a cloud of its own greed, and former London golden boy Michael Berg is being played. Big time. What Michael doesn't know, however, is that the same shadowy fig- ure behind Beirsdorf's collapse is about to tear his life apart. But when he wakes up in a Sussex Garden flophouse with no idea how he got there, the one thing he does know is that the man responsible is going to pay.
Embarking on a quest for vengeance that will take him from the dark halls of Eastern Europe's greatest power brokers to the shining lights of America's Capitol Hill, Michael meets and joins forces with a mysterious Hungarian woman named Tereza. Suffering from a similar past, Tereza will stop at noth- ing to find-and kill-the man they know as Rivello. A financial genius bent on destroying anyone and everyone necessary, Rivello is about to become the richest man in the world. The only thing in his way is the Bilderberg Group, a worldwide clandestine society of high profile leadership that controls politics and the global economy from behind their cloak of secrecy. Now caught between Rivello and the Bilderberg Group, Michael and Tereza must stay one step ahead of both and eliminate their target, or Rivello's plan could bring all of their lives to a crashing halt.