In an age of electronic trading and speculative frenzies, fortunes can be made and lost within seconds. So when lawyer Rick Hansen lands a job at a blue-chip global investment firm, he thinks he's entered the fast lane. Then suspicion arises that his predecessor's suicide was really murder . . .
Layer by layer, Hansen uncovers evidence that someone nearby is involved in the biggest potential swindle in history. For a shadowy cabal of financiers has found a way of precipitating the most devastating crash since October 1929. And, as disaster day approaches, time is running out to avert world chaos - and for Hansen to save his own life.
A terrifying portrait of a market beholden to computers, electronic money, and split-second technology - in a market ripe for cataclysmic manipulation.
