Why is Hugo Lansing, top UN official, so alarmed when his secretary and lover Elizabeth Tasker flies to Frankfurt, near his birthplace in Germany? What is she looking for – and why are the Security Services interested?

Lockhart, ex Interpol and Scotland Yard, is on the trail which leads to the British Museum, a Stately Home and the giant Germanica monument high above the Rhine where he has to fight for his life with a psychopathic killer before Hugo Lansing’s awesome secret is revealed.