In the early nineteen eighties, Charles Revill was one of four young graduates who become multi millionaires when they joined a New York investment bank at the time computers were being installed to accelerate the growth and value of world wide bond markets. Fifteen years later, one of them is shot dead in a London street and another found hanged in a Rome hotel. With a failed marriage behind him and little else to do but sit alone in his Vermont country mansion, Revill decides to find the reason for their murders and sets out on a perilous journey that takes him to America, England, Italy and Azerbaijan. As he draws closer to the truth he realises he is not only risking his own life but those of his family when he discovers he has entered the underworld of organised crime that is planning to empty all the banks of the developed world.