Jack Wellington a UN Preservationist assigned to help Member States preserve and protect their cultural artifacts from natural disasters, war and criminals. Now he is off to Ecuador to help a museum damaged by an earthquake. He finds there has been looting at the museum and chases the thieves across Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. In doing so he becomes immersed in the shadowy underworld of South America filled with criminals, terrorists, and ex-pats from the US and Serbia. To add complications his mother is trying to arrange a blind date.