He has developed a method of playing the financial markets that generates billions of pounds. It is a system that thrives on panic - and feeds on fear.
And then, in the early hours of one morning, his life is threatened when a terrifying intruder breaches the elaborate security of his lakeside home.
So begins a waking nightmare of violence and paranoia as Alex attempts - with increasing desperation - to discover who is trying to destroy him.
Before it's too late...