The City of London's most revered merchant bank Cavendysh & Co's fresh faced graduate trainee William Squibb is visited by the ghost of a secretive Eighteenth Century Royal Navy privateer and told he must save the company and the United States of America from the ruinous intentions of a mysterious French aristocratic billionaire at the helm of RPX Corporation, a multinational financial conglomerate behemoth and secret front for a megalomaniac voodoo cult.

William must engage a reclusive Templar Knight assassin, develop trustworthy allies, investigate his father's suspicious Vatican bank linked car accident whilst he tries to hold down his not so simple day job trading commodity futures, which he studied really really hard for.

William learns a Cold War of powerful and dangerous forces surrounds him and he must fight by any means necessary if the USA's Founding Fathers' dark and sensationally scandalous secret is to be kept hidden in the depths of an old Swiss family's private bank vaults and he is to survive.