In the Sultanate of Oman over two hundred hostages are being held at gunpoint. The world watches helplessly as the madness begins, for the spirit of the Mahdi is abroad, intent on financial and political domination.
To the Oman comes a quiet Congressman from Colorado. Evan Kendrick would seem an unlikely hero, but in his past there is a violence that he cannot forget - the blood of seventy men, women and children in a country which he fiercely loves.
On the other side of the world, five very rich, very eccentric people meet. They are the Inheritors of the Inver Brass, changers of the world. A new kind of world saviour is sought, an innocent messiah. And Evan Kendrick is to be their unwitting victim.
