Lyle Morton leaves the Department of Information in Crown City, the capital of the United Democratic World and disappears with a glass disk that contains information that can destroy the five most powerful and richest men in the world if released. The five force Lee Adams and Evelyn Summers to find Lyle. They know if they do, they and Lyle will be killed. To protect their families and themselves, they must find Lyle, and release what he has to the world. What they will learn shocks them, and may cause them to fail.