Rupert Garfield parachutes into Nazi Occupied Europe with a new female British Intelligence Operative, Hillary Kinnick, and a strange astrologist, Stefan Rostov for a mission that is ill defined. Upon landing, Garfield begins a mystical journey through the paranormal underworld of Europe and discovers his relationship to the black arts as practiced through the centuries has had a direct effect on his life. This added to the dangers of being discovered by the Gestapo heightens his need to not only finish a misbegotten espionage mission, but also come to terms with his supernatural past .