Introduction

It is 2013, and Chris Johnson is a Midwesterner whose word is his reputation. By all accounts, he should be a model member of society. What no one knows is that he is embroiled in a dark world fueled by a dangerous secret.

As he prepares to host another meeting for eleven other talented and successful men who worked with him at Newport Industries nearly a decade earlier, Chris knows it will be a few years before the secret bond that holds the group together will become reality. As Chris vacillates between the past and the present and reflects on how the original events played out, he makes a pivotal decision.

After three years eventually pass and the men ultimately congregate in Switzerland to arrange the final payoff, they have no idea that one of them is secretly altering their plan and, in the process, transforming the future.

In this gripping story, one of twelve men bonded together by a secret must decide whether to compromise his morals or stand strong in his beliefs as a dark world closes in and threatens to envelop him.