A wickedly smart epic thriller about a pathological greed-driven billionaire's plot to suppress an earth-shattering secret that would derail his takeover of America. A mysterious assassin murders the Italian Ambassador in his Embassy at midnight. Before the Ambassador died, he sent a cryptic email containing hidden clues about an amazing secret. The tragic news reaches forensic linguist Joe Richmond while working in his office at Washington D.C.'s Smithsonian Castle. The clues lead Joe through national landmarks in Washington D.C. and New York City, in a race against time to find the key before sinister forces can destroy it forever. And solving the clues requires Leonardo da Vinci's 'Saper Vedere' or 'knowing how to see.' Joe's journey leads him to discover that for 2, 400 years, Greed's dark forces committed murders to hide the secret, from the assassinations of Ancient Rome's beloved Gracchus Brothers, to Christ's crucifixion, to the Renaissance Medici's torture of Machiavelli, to the American slave trade, to the Crash of 1929, to the right-wing Business Plot to overthrow Franklin Roosevelt, to today's oligarchs. The story contains surprising secrets about art, philosophy, history, religion, race, politics and wealth that challenge established beliefs.