George Harlequin has everything - a billion-dollar Swiss bank, a beautiful wife and a life filled with the choicest pleasures of the super rich.
Then the world of high finance is suddenly blown apart. A computer print-out identifies Harlequin as the target of a gigantic take-over fuelled by Arab oil and directed by a ruthless financial genius whose instruments are fraud, blackmail and terror.
From Hamburg and Zurich to London, New York and Mexico, Harlequin has just one slim chance of survival . . .