When teenage tearaway Taz Iqbal walks off a train with a billionaire businessman's laptop, he unwittingly becomes a pawn in a global power struggle.

The year is 2018 and the world is on the edge – yet only a handful of megalomaniacs know the true facts.

Taz enlists the help of boy genius Faical Hafeez as he tries to stay one step ahead of the authorities and together they must piece together the clues to stay alive.

In less than a week, with the help of well-known journalists and socialites, they also manage to uncover the great secrets of our age.

But they must also be ruthless in their bid to defy dark forces – powerbrokers who manipulate governments for their own benefit.