David "Scott" Fitzgerald, a blue-ribbon feature writer for a major New York monthly magazine, is fired for an insidious act of literary corruption. No one will hire him. Possessions repossessed, desperate, down to his last can of tuna, Scott finds himself approached by a multi-billionaire, Hugo Medlock, who hires Scott for his mendacity to secure the one thing in the world Medlock cannot secure for himself. Taken into a world he quickly discovers he knows nothing about, Scott finds himself encountering forces far more deadly than anything he'd imagined.