Jeremy Dance is young, rich and tough as nails. It's the autumn of 1938 and Europe is on the brink of war when the brother of Jeremy Dance's cook disappears in Berlin. Jeremy is determined to help Jimmy Kirk find his brother, but first Jeremy has some cases to solve for his clients before he and Jimmy can head to Berlin. When two of Jeremy's routine cases end up in murder, he must solve the cases, but with a lack of clues, Jeremy has an uphill battle. In a search that stretches from Boston to Washington to Berlin, seeing Adolph Hitler in person isn't the only surprise he finds in Germany.