It started in California. A body washed ashore is found by Paula Grey. Weeks later, Bob Newman discovers a woman’s body floating into the cost of Cornwall. Paula is stunned when she realized it’s the same woman she hauled out of Pacific six thousand miles away. 

          Tweed senses a worldwide menace, tracks Vincent Bernard Moloch, creator of AMBECO, largest conglomerate on the planet. Why have strong domes appear, overlooking the ocean off California? Who is “Vanity” Richmond, the woman with no identity, companion to Moloch? 

          What links “expatriates” in California to a similar community in Cornwall? A tremor of panic shatters London, Washington. The tempo accelerates until the final battle.