A supertanker goes missing in the Mozambique Channel. The president of Togo disappears from his mistress's bed in the middle of the night. The American police find that more than a ton of confiscated cocaine has vanished from an evidence locker in El Paso. Meanwhile, the Bourbon-Busset family, descendants of thirty kings and at least one pope, are busy exploiting these events and a few others elsewhere in the world. The coffers of Riyadh and Rome...