Adam Weldon is stunned when his Zen monk uncle who raised him is kidnapped and the ransom demands run into the hundreds of millions. Looking into the matter along with his lover, the FBI agent Tripnee, Weldon will come up against child hitmen, a tech billionaire, a fake cult, Bay pirates, and a brutal cartel. Plus there are some very unpleasant people in the US government which have unsavory plans for the region of San Francisco Bay.