Richard Golding

A young man's gambling losses cause him to become embroiled in a currency heist.

An American investigator for the U.N., a German scientist and a British reporter join forces to investigate a series of disappearances and mutilation-deaths confined to a Swiss Alp and involving a thick, mobile cloud, a telepathic girl, an animate dead man, and tentacled, cyclopean beings from another planet.

A detective tracking a stolen gem begins to suspect there's more to the case than just theft.