After his father dies in a car accident, Jim Dodge moves from Hawaii to New York with Dsystems, the international company his father built from the ground up. When Dodge discovers a notebook and a mysterious key lost on a Cape Cod beach by Dsystems' oldest employee, Henri “Ritz” Dubois, Dodge and his clairvoyant mother, Kelahni, begin to suspect that his father’s death was no accident. FBI Agent Sam Rice is intensely interested in what is happening at Dsystems as well. His team’s ongoing investigation into a possible domestic terror attack coming from within the company points to a conspiracy reaching into the highest levels of the United States government and beyond. The key Dodge found on the beach unlocks a crucial piece of evidence that can expose the terrorists, as the trail of evidence leads the Dodges, Sam Rice, and Hyannis police lieutenant D’Angelo Quatrello to Hawaii. On the other side of the globe, a group orchestrating the terroist attack has its own startling agenda for the United States and the world. The order of Il Novo Mundo, comprised of top-ranking members of powerful, wealthy organizations and secret societies, is seeking to culminate centuries of infiltration into the world's major financial institutions by establishing a new global economy and world government. Time is running out for Julian Marks, head of the European Parmount Bank, and the Leader of Il Novo Mundo, Ettore Eros. They must set their plan in motion before Eros, terminally ill from heart disease, becomes unable to continue. The plot races ahead on both fronts as Kelahni Dodge is kidnapped by rogue CIA agent Keith Navaren, who is trying to reclaim the crucial piece of evidence against the domestic terrorists. Agent Sam Rice has just hours to foil their efforts and save thousands of lives. Meanwhile, back at Eros's opulent castle off the coast of Italy, the success or failure of Il Novo Mundo's grand scheme turns on a young wheat farmer, an overlooked detail and Marks's true identity.