At the start of the 21st century the Spence family had successfully accumulated a multi-billion dollar business empire. The family had two sitting U.S. Senators, an ex-CIA Deputy Director now in charge of a highly secretive NSA project, and a 53 year old head of their business empire and family, Zachary Spence,who lived on a sprawling estate north of Liverpool, England. Zach was a top advisor to the British Prime Minister and to British Intelligence agencies, all due to his expertise in the affairs of Hong Kong, Macao, and mainland Communist China since his business entreaty to those locations starting back in the 1970's. A young savant, a brilliant Chinese woman, now a U.S. citizen, and in FBI custody, was about to initiate their family's greatest struggle and throw their family into a spiraling morass of cyber spy-craft, deceit, revenge, and tragedy.