Robert "Bobby" Astor is a successful New York hedge-fund manager on the cusp of making his biggest, most daring killing ever. But everything changes when his father, the chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange, is killed in a bizarre, mystifying accident on the South Lawn of the White House while en route to delivering a terrifying secret to the president of the United States. In the wake of the incident, Astor sees the business he built start to crumble. A cryptic clue leads him deeper into the web of lies surrounding his father's murder, and Astor stumbles onto a sophisticated foreign conspiracy that threatens the entire financial system of the United States.