Synopsis

Random accounts are starting to vanish from the Union State Banks computersystems. What seems at first to be an error becomes a nightmare when the same bank suffers from a complete system failure and all account records are permanently lost.

When the same thing begins to occur at another financial institution, famed television reporter Jonathan Price, begins to investigate. He and his team discover a plot, devised by a madman, to extort millions of dollars from various banks or to destroy them. The implications to the country's economy, let alone to the world's financial equilibrium, are staggering.

Price begins a race against time aimed at stopping the man, known only as Sebastian, before he can plunge the country back to the crash of 1929.