Like his recent novels, Kerr has two narratives going throughout the text. The first, set in 1956, involves East Germany's Stasi, who want Bernie Gunther to go the Great Britain and assassinate a woman spy that has comprised herself. Bernie wants nothing to do with it, so he jumps from a train, after killing a Stasi goon, and is on the run to West Germany the rest of the novel. The other story takes place in 1939, when Bernie's old nemesis and boss, Heydrich, sends him to Berchtesgaden, Hitler's retreat, to solve a murder and come up with some scandal on Martin Bormann, Hitler's right-hand man, and Heydrich's bitter rival. It gets complicated, a couple of more murders take place and there is a woman involved, of course, but Bernie solves the murder to the delight of both Borrmann and Heydrich. And he lives to narrate another day.
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