What if the ultimate computer firewall protection turned out to be the ultimate computer snooper? Speeding through the Swiss Alps in his Lamborghini, Maurice Vivant misses a curve and flies off the road. It looks like an accident but James LaPointe believes it is not. He is obsessed with who killed his friend and why. Maurice accompanies James on his quest for the truth. Is he a ghost or James's imagination? Even the police are convinced it was murder when people involved with settling Maurice's multiple-business estate start dying and cars and buildings blow up. James's nemesis, Felix Alexander, keeps putting up roadblocks wherever James turns. His search leads him back home to Boston and a computer security firm where his ex-wife works. Is her company's new unreleased software the reason for all the violence?