ENS, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris: the elite college where two brilliant and passionate love triangles are formed. Sartre, de Beauvoir, and Camus in the 1920's celebrate their infamously complex affairs and inspire, give birth to their 21st century, philosophy student reincarnations, pauvre Algerine Sophie, wealthy Jean-Jacques and techie Christophe. As they explore the City of Light, from Sacre Coeur to Montparnasse, their intensely beautiful relationships mature, surely these new intellectual giants can't fail to change the world's orbit.

Ten years later, hurting in so many ways, she finds Jj in the UK. Now with unlimited resources, she will have her revenge, ruthlessly punishing, taking, the misogynous, privileged elite in her remorseless and bloody chess game. At her every move, in six uber privileged UK cities, Jean-Jacques and his team must protect the centuries old traditions, the honourable status quo, and his own family's fortune. by solving her clues, tracing her mysterious paths, answering her mathematical riddles, but always against those infernal countdowns.

The inexorable denouement develops. The aristocracy and the entire social structure of the privileged western world trembles.