When a director of respected global investment bank Steen Odenberg & Co is discovered strangled to death in his luxury Wapping penthouse, Steen's employee Anthony Carlton finds himself reluctantly drawn into the investigations surrounding the death. All his enquiries lead to a mysterious company known as EPIC, the European Property Investment Corporation, and the trail takes him from Amsterdam, Frankfurt to Hong Kong. Anthony is about to uncover a fraud and embezzlement scam on a massive scale. Not only his career, but his life is in danger.