It is 1948. Inar Christiansen, a Norwegian cellist-turned-soldier, undertakes an ambitious and dangerous plan—to track down and destroy the members of the SS troop who murdered his parents and most of the citizens of his hometown in Norway. Christiansen is especially intent on finding Colonel Egon Hagemann, the sadistic director of a concentration camp during the war who masterminded the destruction of his town. But the only way to find Hagemann is by finding Esther Rosensaft, the beautiful, mysterious Jewess who was once Hagemann's tormented mistress.Christiansen embarks upon a relentless search throughout Europe, a search that leads to Nazis in hiding, Israeli spies, and a deadly secret that could lead to another holocaust.