A Cotton Malone adventure involving a sinister conspiracy, a quest for vengeance, and a secret treasure that Napoleon took to his grave.

Ex-agent Cotton Malone's closest and most dangerous friend, Henrik Thorvaldsen, is in serious trouble - and the men who want to kill him are on Malone's doorstep.

Thorvaldsen has been tracking a shadowy group called the Paris Club - not only because they are about to trigger a global financial meltdown, but also because he believes they were responsible for the murder of his son two years ago.

Dragged into his friend's schemes and secretly under pressure from the US government to stop both Thorvaldsen and the Paris Club, Malone discovers that the answers he needs lie in the past, and an astounding treasure that Napoleon took to his grave.