[4] Ty Hauck learns of the murder of a close personal friend April Glassman along with her husband Marc and their daughter.

[6] The murder of Marc Glassman, a trader at a major brokerage, has an immediate and dramatic effect on world financial markets.

In Washington, Treasury agent Naomi Blum watches millions of dollars in suspicious bank transfers.

Their search takes them to Serbia[12] and leads back to London[13] to find Marty al-Bashir, the chief investment officer of the Royal Saudi Partnership.

As witnesses are quickly silenced in a string of murders, the trail leads all the way back to the Secretary of the Treasury in Washington and Peter Simons, the CEO of Reynold's Reid.