THEY’D DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY. ANYTHING.

Paul Verhardt, whose wealth, whose legion of women, whose fabulous life-style were legendary, but whose Nazi roots were a secret time bomb waiting to explode… Sigrid, his sexually promiscuous sister, and his most dangerous weakness…Augustus Meyer, the corporate king whose kindly smile concealed a razor-sharp, steel-trap mind…Patricia Garvey, the most beautiful woman ever to make the executive suite her home and the bedroom her base of operations… Russel Thorpe, the ex-Green Beret who became master of a different kind of warfare in the international business jungle… Leo Fuchsberg, the movieland mogul with a shameless appetite for swollen profits and perverse pleasures…

Presidents were their puppets. Whole countries were their properties. They were the world’s new ruling class-going beyond all boundaries to possess more and more….