It is twenty years after Nazi Germany's triumphant victory in World War II and the entire country is preparing for the grand celebration of the Fuhrer's 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.

罗伯特•哈里斯是《祖国》、《庞贝》、《最高权力》、《影子写手》和《权谋之业》等国际畅销书的作者，他的作品被翻译成三十七种语言。毕业于剑桥大学英语系后，他曾担任英国广播公司BBC“全视野”和“新闻夜”节目的记者、《观察家报》编辑。