AD 79: A natural disaster gives rise to The Vesuvius Group. Over the centuries, its power and wealth have flourished. Today, its members influence the upper echelons of the World Order and have a tradition of macabre and arrogant wagers.

1947: A ship in the Malacca Straits broadcasts a distress signal. When help arrives, her crew is discovered dead… because somebody wanted to acquire the ship’s cargo.

Present day: A C160 transporting ‘clean energy’ cells developed by Future Energy Group crashes into the Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia. The incident claims the lives of two indigenous children.

A violent confrontation pits FEG’s chief of security, Luc Fortesque, against one of the victims’ father, Billy Bradford… and exposes FEG to an international investigation.

In a bid to return to his employer’s good graces, Luc Fortesque agrees to ‘acquire’ weapons technology from a Chinese rival. Unwittingly, he lends himself to the final act of a grand scheme of revenge that dates to the end of World War II.

In the aftermath of a devastating attack on the world’s grandest luxury hotel, Sebastian Laporte is on the Most Wanted List of every law enforcement agency in the world. But his actions have made him a prime candidate to execute the ultimate suicide mission.

Amid all this, Billy Bradford and Luc Fortesque must put aside their personal war and become the men they once were to prevent… Apocalypse.