Manfred Schiller is the world's most powerful and richest citizen; he controls an enormous industry that covers most aspects of everyday life. The key to controlling his organization is a week-old baby boy, and Franz Molke--leader of the People's Party in Germany--aims to control the Schiller empire by kidnapping the infant. The kidnap fails, but the baby disappears in the process, and Conor Lenihan, an ex-IRA terrorist and ex-SAS soldier, escapes a double-cross and violent death. Now he must work with Joanna, the infant's mother, in a desperate fight to thwart Molke's plan for a new Europe.