Following their mothers death after a long illness, the mysterious disappearance of their father prompts three brothers to search for answers in an amoral world created by the greed of unscrupulous scientists and giant drug conglomerates A new caste of private military contractors in the pay of these corporations mete out murder and mayhem in their name, and danger stalks the brothers every move as the trail to truth leads them across major European capitals to cataclysmic revelations at the very hub of American government in Washington.