Nate Harver, Portland, Oregon Private Investigator, finds himself entangled in a web of international political and religious upheaval. The heiress who hired him to find out what happened to a large part of her fortune has been killed in a suspicious car wreck. Nate's investigation links the missing fortune to a mysterious neocon religious organization. Dead bodies pile up when a team of assassins and gang of skinheads ascend on the City of Roses. The peril extends from Portland to Las Vegas and on to Long Island as Nate digs deeper into a burgeoning worldwide conspiracy. He will be forced into a fatal confrontation that will change his life forever and plunge the woman he lives into mortal danger.