Money is the deadliest weapon of all...

The evidence against him is overwhelming. The prison term he's facing will last the rest of his life. And inside a country built on secrecy, Charles Black, former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, has only one choice. He's about to go on the run: running for his freedom, and for the truth. Accused of almost half a billion dollars' worth of fraud, Charles Black knows he's innocent-but doesn't know that he's been made a pawn in the ultimate set-up...

From the hushed halls of the most secretive institutions in the world-Swiss banks-to the high-risk derivatives market, from the emerald coast of Sardinia to the Alaska wilderness, one man is fighting a labyrinth of danger, money, and power-and against one, unseen enemy who has been pulling all the strings...