Six years after the death of his beloved wife in Serbia, Harry Berkeley is sent undercover to investigate rumours of a new Germany rising from the ashes of the old. He encounters the intriguing and fiercely nationalistic Frederika Lipscheutz, who isn't fooled by his journalist cover story. Can he trust her? Or does she have a hidden agenda? When Berkeley's daughter goes missing from her exclusive girls' school, it is clear that he is being very cleverly manipulated - yet by whom and to what end? But the powers massing against him clearly have no idea what Berkeley is capable of, when he is at risk of losing everything that he holds dear....