Psychologically scarred by his time in military service, David Strachan lives in early retirement aboard his yacht in the South of France. A chance encounter with a beautiful American girl gives his life a new purpose until she is brutally murdered. After taking his assassin’s revenge, Strachan finds himself on the run in a paranoid world where no one can be trusted. An ancient and terrible nemesis is unleashed to hunt him down and Strachan must make his escape from a nightmare web of conspiracy involving all the resources of international Freemasonry, national security agencies and other global institutions.

Strachan's quest for revenge has seen him drawn into a never before suspected world of magic and sorcery and power politics as he encounters a Mystical Order, The Shadowmasters, who have grandiose and terrifying plans for an unsuspecting world.