A late-night phone call, a hazardous cross-country drive and former financial trader Ben Turner finds himself once again lured into a society he thought he had left behind. Some two years after his terrifying ordeal in New York he has made a successful life for himself. Suddenly his comfortable existence is disrupted. Tricked into a fresh encounter with the all commanding Crispin Collingwood, he has no option but to undertake a mission beset with difficulties. A journey to Africa brings danger to himself and his family as he confronts duplicity, greed and treachery. But is all what it seems...