General Dwight D. Eisenhower sends Billy Boyle to London to investigate the murder of a Soviet security officer at a moment when the alliance against Germany is already under severe strain. Evidence connected to the Katyn Forest massacre has enraged Polish officers, and Scotland Yard suspects that the killing may be an act of revenge.
Suspicion falls on Billy’s friend Piotr Kazimierz, a Polish aristocrat in exile, giving Billy a personal reason to challenge the official theory. To clear Kaz, he must uncover the victim’s activities without worsening a dispute that could damage relations among the United States, Britain, Poland and the Soviet Union.
