"When we first meet Lucas, he is in a U.S. military hospital in West Germany recuperating from beatings sustained while he was a prisoner of the Stasi, the infamous East German secret police.
How did this quiet, almost reclusive young man, one of the first selected to represent the U.S. as an Eisenhower Student Ambassador for Peace, wind up in an East German prison accused of spying and murder?
It is 1957, the height of the Cold War, and Europe is awash with agents, double agents, spy networks and moles. Where, exactly, does Lucas Hamilton fit in? Is he a patriot? A spy? A sociopath, capable of killing without emotion or remorse? Or is he simply an eager young man caught up in a battle between forces he cannot control?