The year is 1939. It is the Fall of that year and Germany has just invaded Poland. Tom Wilde is on vacation in France when he learns a previous student who vanished two years before while heading to fight in Spain is now in a concentration camp in the Pyrenees. Wilde's helping the man get released will be the push to get him involved yet again in intrigue which will be connected to a young English woman getting very close to a major figure in England all for the purpose of murder.