His encounter with a strikingly beautiful attorney sets off a chain of events that leads Professor Sam Baradi to track down the people responsible for the collapse of economies and markets, and uncover a conspiracy that has its roots in medieval times.

The accumulation of seemingly unrelated events in the winter of 2009 -- like the meltdown of financial systems, the stock market crash, the tsunami of Internet misinformation, the flare-up of hostilities in the holy land, and the flood of anti-Semitic chatter -- threatens to turn our economic prosperity into a terminally frozen wasteland..

Thrust in the middle of this mayhem, Sam’s adventures take him from the splendors of New York’s Finger Lakes and Boston’s waterfront to the snow-capped Swiss Alps and the stunning Mediterranean beaches, as he tries to prevent a nefarious group from pushing mankind past a threshold where an irreversible shift in power would occur.