"Gazing out his picture window high above the Central Park Reservoir, former Wall Street veteran Ridley spots a flashing light in an apartment across the park, as if a lonely person is signaling him. His determination to find out who this mystery woman is leads him on a quest that will tempt him with either delusional madness or the fulfillment of his own mythic fate. Ridley leaves the safety of his apartment window to save the femme fatale and descends into a dangerous world of global conspiracies, madness, and sickness; beyond that, into the enduring mysteries of love and fatherhood; and deeper still, into the bedrock mystery of life itself."--Back cover.