Worldwide development of certain molecular systems-nanotechnology- can cure or kill, establishment of a Committee of World Mercenary Industrialists comeforth, rationale is to eliminate-assassinate high-tech scientists who are creating 'unfair' ultra-competitive marketable products, fathers of four teenage boys from four continents are assassinated, boys meet in Switzerland and develop plans for a musketeer revenge team, individual assassinations, murders and massacres begin, industrialists win most battles. The boys' efforts lead them to several fortresses/castles/palaces in China, Syria, Turkey, and South Africa.