AustLit

'If ever it has a mind too, fate will always surpass wealth.

'Billionaire French industrialist, Monsieur Robert Turner, is set to learn this harsh lesson in life when he is kidnapped from his Alpine hunting lodge by Europe’s most experienced gang of extortionists.

'His abductors demand a ransom of thirty million U.S. dollars, which only last week he would have been able to raise in a few hours. However, this week let's just say that finding enough money to gain his freedom is going to require Robert surviving betrayal within his business, disharmony at home, two murders, and a host of other problems. ' (Publication summary)