Samuel becomes desperate for a new case to come his way and decides to pursue a two-year-old magazine article that pulls him into a life-and-death struggle against dark forces in faraway places. Diamond shipments that come up missing in New York and Los Angeles send him down a trail of intrigue and danger, with many innocent lives depending upon him to stop the destruction at home and abroad. This quickly becomes one of his most difficult cases, with bits of information scattered here and there with no apparent connection. Samuel's latest caper is sure to baffle the reader and keep them turning pages late into the night.