Nathaniel Quinn is a small-time writer living in Louisville, Kentucky. While researching a writing project in a local bookstore, he runs head-on into a mysterious woman clutching an old book. Minutes later the woman is dead, murdered right before his eyes, and the book she held in her hands is now in his. Reading the contents of the book triggers a series of events that change his life forever.Nathaniel is blindsided by a dangerous world typically inhabited by those who have been trained to deal with it. Nathaniel has no such training. Now, he faces a shadowy organization intent on restructuring world power. Their tactics go way beyond terrorism, and the conspiracy is global. Their first target is the United States.Left with only a handful of people he can trust, can Nathaniel adapt, and more importantly, can he survive?