A beautiful, brilliant girl is dead. The victim of a world hell-bent on consuming itself to death. In his London bedroom, Duncan McLeod stares emptily into her lifeless green eyes little knowing a murderous maelstrom of greed, tyranny and corruption has been unleashed upon him.
Its manifestations are intoxicating, dark and deadly: an alluring police officer with a tongue like a razor blade; an enticing researcher with an explosive secret; a pair of pugnacious knights of the realm desperate to keep milking an ancient cash cow. In a devastating quest for a truth shrouded in time and new technology, who has most to lose?