The international economy is on the verge of collapse. Brilliant founders, from musicians to industrialists, continue to mysteriously disappear. Unemployment has climbed up to 24 percent. Gas is 42 per gallon. Vice President in Charge of Operations for Taggart Transcontinental, dagny Taggart, has discovered what may well be the response for the mounting energy crisis - uncovered abandoned a miraculous motor which may seemingly force, one of destroys the earth. But, the motor is dead... there's not any body left to decode its covert... and, some one is watching. It's really a race against the clock to discover the inventor until the motor of the World is stopped for good and block the destroyer. A motor which would power the entire world. A global whose motor would be stopped. Who's John Galt?