 After a back-to-back best selling author, Eric Leeman plummets to the depths of alcoholic depression after a controversial release: High Conspiracy. But a fortuitous meeting with Stephen Barkley, a close friend from Eric s college days, offers Eric an opportunity at professional redemption. Eric accepts Stephen s offer to write a non-fictional work chronicling the history of Stephen s Family and their global business empire. In course of Eric s research, a detective who has been investigating Stephen for several years, reveals to Eric shocking murderous suspicion about Stephen as well as elaborate cover-up by Stephen Barkley s powerful family. And the detective may not be the only one who knows the secrets in Stephen Barkley s past.