A blockbuster novel founded in fact, it tells the chilling tale of Germany's most explosive wartime secret - synthetic fuel - that triggers a brutal murder and shock waves in the deadly world of OPEC and multinational cartels.
And plunges its hero, an ex-CIA agent, now an L.A. cop, together with a beautiful woman into a quest whose stunning climax is a face-to-face confrontation with the Godfather of the Underworld.