Julia Austrian is not only blind, she's a world-class concert pianist. One night at a gala performance in London, her sight returns as mysteriously as it disappeared ten years before. She can see, and with excitement she glories in her world. Until suddenly her mother is shot . . . and Julia is the only one who can identify the attacker.
But before she can do anything, she's plunged into disabling blindness again. At that instant she steps off the cliff of a celebrated and wealthy life into a violent whirlwind of deceit, greed, and powerful forces whose secret control manipulates banks, laws, police forces, the media - and her . . .
In affluent Westchester County, a charming old man riddled with guilt prepares to bring down one of the most influential families in America - his own. In New York, a coolly determined Presidential candidate prepares to beat the pundits and the polls - he's found a way to guarantee his election to America's highest office. And in Langley, Virginia, a maverick CIA analyst - Sam Keeline - embarks on a forbidden journey to recover the Amber Room - the Eighth Wonder of the World.
