Ullswater Lake

Hackneyed journo Mike stumbles across a plot to trigger a global stock market meltdown by way of a chance meeting with an air stewardess who's tired of her job.

Against the backdrop of turmoil in China, the trials and tribulations of a blue-blooded hedge fund manager with family roots entangled in far-flung places, a young banker is murdered in mysterious circumstances.

Meanwhile, hapless cops search for the culprit and Mike, our detached streetwise media type, finds himself up to his neck in a mess of somebody else's making.

He has no other option but to try to extricate himself and his mile-high aircrew acquaintance Gillian from the mire of power and money that threatens their lives. Can Mike and Gillian succeed in revealing the shocking truth that will make the financial world shudder and mere mortals quake?

A tale of high-finance shenanigans, geopolitical ructions, murder and unrequited love unfolds.

Updated every Friday.