It begins in Geneva. There American lawyer Joel Converse meets a man he hasn’t seen in twenty years, a covert operative who dies violently at his feet, whispering words that hand Converse a staggering legacy of death: "The generals …they’re back …Aquitaine!" 

          Suddenly Converse is running for his life, alone with the world’s most shattering secret. Pursued by anonymous executioners to the darkest corners of Europe, he is forced to play a game of survival by blood-rules he thought he’d long left behind. And one person believes him – a woman he once loved and lost. And only Converse and the woman can wrest the world from the iron grasp of Aquitaine…