Thomas Bolden, the hero of the novel, is a successful thirty-something banker on Wall Street—though in childhood fate didn’t exactly treat him kindly. A daring attack by robbers, which jolts him into remembering half-forgotten street-fight skills, unexpectedly turns into a nightmare and an obsession: within just a few hours Bolden’s career and life are ruined. The police are looking for him— for a murder he didn’t commit— and armed men from a secret political organization are hunting him as well, claiming he allegedly poses a threat to their far-reaching plans… But everything has reasons, and often they lie in the past. Reich’s hero must make astonishing discoveries and uncover a dangerous conspiracy—one whose origins may go back to the Founding Fathers of the United States! But above all, Thomas Bolden must learn the truth about himself.