The sweeping story of four generations of a family whose destiny flows with the fortunes of oil. Ted Angstrom was a genius in the field and so passionate in the pursuit of power he would stop at nothing. He married into an aristocratic family, stole from his father, out bluffed Franklin D Roosevelt and Ibn Saud, the King of Arabia. Only the women Ted loved--Sara, his young, Jewish mistriss; Brilli, his headstrong, promiscuous daughter; and Brill, his idealistic granddaughter--dared challenge his grand design to build an empire that would last forever, an empire that would make his heirs THE IMMORTALS.