The largest chemical plant in Louisiana is decimated, scores are killed and maimed, and the question is why. Is it operational error, terrorism or something else, and in the end it may not be one thing or the other, but both. From a tumultuous corporate boardroom in Sidney to the wily streets of The French Quarter, from a halcyon afternoon in a London park to the shadowy, dense jungles of Guatemala, fierce and unrelenting ambitions collide in a struggle to redefine the global balance of wealth, power and justice.