After discovering the truth behind a shipping company's planned disposal of Japan's stockpile of spent nuclear fuel, an IAEA employee is murdered in his apartment just steps away from the United Nations headquarters in New York City. But before he is killed, he passes on critical information to the daughter of a powerful friend.

Now, armed with terrifying information and a threat to reveal her secret, Ayumi Kagawa becomes the target of a criminal organization and is abducted from her Manhattan hotel room. New York City window washer, Kyle Murdoch, witnesses her kidnapping and is thrust headfirst into the middle of an international conspiracy.

Determined to stay alive and on the run, Kyle must keep one step ahead of the Russian mafia and evade a pair of NYPD detectives. With the help of a Colombian Special Forces officer in the United States on a quest to find her missing niece, and a retired spook and former colleague of his murdered father, Kyle begins to find the meaning in his life as he sets out to save Ayumi's.

From the heights of the New York City skyline to the depths of the Brighton Beach underworld and the sharp lines of a cargo ship bound for Russia, the race is on to save Ayumi, and with her, prevent a sequence of events that would destabilize the Middle East and have devastating consequences across the globe.

Christopher Anthony