08/18/1943 - 09/22/1943. "Helen Meeker faces a confounding mystery that includes a congressman, a mobster, and the German high command. Triggered by a bank robbery, a suicide, and a kidnapping, Meeker’s team is put on high alert and drawn into intense action where one of them is gravely injured. In Washington, St. Louis, Chicago, and up and down the Atlantic coast, they are saddled with the seemingly impossible tasks of protecting key government secrets and saving the lives of two innocent children."