"Heaven wheels above you, displaying her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground"... Dante AlighieriWith the Third Reich in the final death throes of survival, anti-Nazi detective Willi Prinz finds himself in the center of a horrific string of gruesome murders. Surrounded by the physical destruction of war and the incomparable human suffering that engulfs him, Prinze remains unaware of his own bizarre link to the world's most notorious man Adolf Hitler.Subverted into the murky and violent world of the Gestapo he himself becomes the criminal aiding and abetting them against his will and becomes involved in one of the largest scale thefts of priceless historical treasure the world has ever seen. It is wholesale bedlam and chaos, but through it all he is tasked with finding out who murdered two women both of whom trace relationships to the powerful among the Reich's elite. While he has a sense of where his investigation might take him, he can never be fully prepared for what he will ultimately find and for who is responsible. In the end Prinze cannot escape his own destiny and will be led, like a lamb to slaughter, to the realization of his own true hidden identity.
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