Sahara Desserres has forsaken Egypt to start a new life beneath the blanket of secrecy that protects the realm of the Frank Organisation. As Sara Dufoe, one of Harold Frank’s first tasks for her is to convince Adam Bitton, Israel’s Minister of Science, to push through a bill in their Knesset (parliament) to sever their status as a member state of CERN. The FO has a vision of the future that is free of idealisms that do not match their own. For decades, they have been developing and carefully hoarding technologies that will give themselves, and the recently formed Unified Nations, an unassailable advantage in the new world order they envisage.
Adam Bitton had once been the lover of Hanna Price. Sara convinces Hanna, along with her son, Mathew Price, to arrange a meeting with Bitton. It’s a liaison that goes terribly wrong.
Someone within the Israeli political machine does not agree with the FO’s ambitions, and their reaction is to attempt to thwart their schemes in a manner that is both permanent and deadly.
Mac Macdonell believes he has found his own Garden of Eden in the heart of the French countryside, nurtured by the irrepressible love of Emerentienne and her daughter Gigi. He has vowed to leave his former life behind him, and it is a promise that no person or motive could force him to break.
With one exception. Mathew Price.
When Mathew seeks Mac’s help, the two men find themselves reluctantly drawn into the convoluted web that surrounds the FO and their ambitions. Both men will be forced to risk their own lives and sacrifice everything they hold dear as they attempt to untangle the mystery of who is behind the threat to the organisation’s key members.
As the world scrambles to forge new alliances, the FO unleashes its arsenal of technologies. Perhaps, the timing is fortuitous. Or maybe, it’s something that they have been planning for decades. What is obvious is that Sara, Mathew, and Mac are entwined and entangled by their shared histories and, as their fates converge on a pivotal moment in humankind’s future, it’s not entirely clear to them if they are the masters of their own fortunes, of simply the pawns of Harold Frank.