Mark Cain, son of Holo­caust sur­vivors, works for the Depart­ment of Justice’s Office of Spe­cial Inves­ti­ga­tions. He hunts down Nazi war crim­i­nals who have man­aged to sneak into the Unit­ed States. When an elder­ly woman comes to his office and says that she has doc­u­ments that she will bring to their next meet­ing, he assumes that she is crazy. When he reads about her mur­der in the next day’s Wash­ing­ton Post, he knows that she was not. As Cain works to uncov­er the truth, he must deal with his ego­cen­tric boss, a new­ly elect­ed Repub­li­can Speak­er of the House who wants to cut big gov­ern­ment down to size, elim­i­nat­ing his office, and with his estranged father, who wants him to get a real job and give him grand­chil­dren. As he delves fur­ther into the woman’s case, he finds a com­plex web of secrets and mur­der that will lead him into the fright­en­ing world of Euro­pean war crim­i­nals and Amer­i­can right-wing militias. 

Elsner, a for­mer for­eign cor­re­spon­dent, uses his first nov­el to bring the work of the Office of Spe­cial Inves­ti­ga­tions to read­ers. They will learn some his­to­ry while enjoy­ing an action-packed story.