An Oxford don. A secret society. Years of planning. And the future of a financial superpower at the mercy of one man's obsession . . .
Professor Wallace Bradley, a Nobel Prize-nominated Oxford economist, has a secret, all-consuming obsession: the financial destruction of the world's second economic superpower. To achieve his aim, he recruits and indoctrinates nine idealistic undergraduates.
Over the years, these dedicated collaborators rise to positions of influence from which they deliberately start a financial wildfire to threaten world stability and cause economic meltdown.
Only one man starts to realise what's going on: investigative journalist James Emerson begins to uncover evidence of a conspiracy as he follows the exploding crisis round the globe.
With Emerson in hot pursuit, Bradley prepares to deliver the coup de grace to his ultimate nemesis: Japan. Before doing so, he cannot resist visiting Tokyo to confront an old man, the human embodiment of his hatred. Finally, the two men meet . . .
