The body of a man is found in the Havel river close to Berlin, drowned in his bathsuit. Xavier March, Sturmbannführer in the Kripo, the German Kriminapolizei, is in charge of the case. It appears that that man was Josef Buhler, one of the founder of the Nazi party back in 1933. Herr Globocnik, Obergruppenführer in the Gestapo, is quite eager to close the case, especially with the 75th birthday of Adolf Hitler a few days later. But as other high rank NSDAP officers are found mysteriously suicided, March keeps digging. We are in April 1964, and the Reich dominates Europe from the actual Germany to the Caspian Sea.
