When her husband John vanishes, criminal lawyer Sylvia West is determined to find out the truth behind his disappearance. From an investigation that takes her from the highest level think tanks and posh Long Island mansions, to the dingiest Times Square street corner, Sylvia strings together a web of tenuous inferences, coincidences, and hard fact, from which emerges a disturbing, even fantastic pattern. And at the heart of it is John's inexplicable association with The Foundation, a shadowy group of powerful, ruthless people who will commit any atrocity to preserve their plan to institute a new world order. Sylvia realizes the answers to her questions lie in Switzerland, hidden behind the walls of The Foundation's headquarters and puts her life on the line to prevent the organization's leaders from carrying out their insidious mission.