In this contemporary political thriller, economist David Pedersen moves from Denmark to Washington, D.C. to join the World Bank. He is driven by two burning ambitions: to fight poverty and to build a family better than the one from his childhood.
With surprising twists, pursuing an ethical, happy life becomes a balancing act including Islamist terrorism, passionate love, exciting sexual experimentation, tragic loss, culture wars, and domestic terror making him run to save his life.
But is there a way back to be with the woman he loves?