AD 79: A natural disaster gives rise to The Vesuvius Group. Over the centuries, its power and wealth have flourished. Today, its members influence the upper echelons of World Order, and have a tradition of macabre, and arrogant wagers. 

1947: A ship in the Malacca Straits broadcasts a distress signal. When help arrives, her crew is discovered dead... because somebody wanted to acquire the ship's cargo.  

Present day: A C160 transporting 'clean energy' cells developed by Future Energy Group crashes into the Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia. The incident claims the lives of two indigenous children.

A violent confrontation pits FEG's chief of security, Luc Fortesque against one of the victims' father, Billy Bradford... and exposes FEG to an international investigation.

In a bid to return to his employer's good graces, Luc Fortesque agrees to 'acquire' weapons technology from a Chinese rival. Unwittingly, he lends himself to the final act of...