1945: in his castle high up in the Alps a Swiss count meets with representatives of an organisation helping Nazi war criminals escape to South America. Many years later, in another century, a woman is gruesomely murdered at her lonely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor. The two events cannot possibly be connected ­− or can they? Then there's Interpol carrying out an investigation into certain irregularities within the European Union; while a series of security leaks results in a wave of terrorist atrocities across the continent. Once again, it falls to oil troubleshooter and former MI6 agent Caroline Kent to find out what's going on, and expose another top-level conspiracy; this time designed to protect those who do not care about the horrific consequences of interfering with the molecular structure of matter.