It is twenty years after Nazi Germanys triumphant victory in World War II and the entire country is preparing for the grand celebration of the Fhrers seventy-fifth birthday as well as the imminent peacemaking visit from President Kennedy. Meanwhile Berlin Detective Xavier March -- a disillusioned but talented investigation of a corpse washed up on the shore of a lake. When a dead man turns out to be a high-ranking Nazi commander the Gestapo orders March off the case immediately. Suddenly other unrelated deaths are anything but routine. Now obsessed by the case March teams up with a beautiful young American journalist and starts asking questions...dangerous questions. What they uncover is a terrifying and long-concealed conspiracy of such astonding and mind-numbing terror that is it certain to spell the end of the Third Reich -- if they can live long enough to tell the world about it.