In the world of high finance, mega-business and international politics, an American businessman, a big American corporation - and finally America itself - all get drawn into the vortex of European diplomacy, high-level corruption and dreams of power, and go down the drain.  Frank Rogers, President of a California aerospace company, makes a last minute dash to Europe to secure a multi-billion missile program and finds himself dealing with a twenty million dollar slush fund, a bribery plot involving a Swiss lawyer who plays both ends against the middle, several NATO generals, a Chancellor of Germany and his own chairman of the board. Very soon, Rogers is on the run, a man on everybody's "wanted" list, whose ambition is to reach a country from which he can't be extradited, while his flight sets off a chain of circumstances that can bring to an end the last days of America's position as a major world power.