Dr Rachel Benedict is an American historian and bestselling Author. She has a British connection through her estranged father, an English thriller writer. He has spent much of his life plotting to expose secrets from World War two, which are so sensitive that they have been covered up for seventy years. He seeks Rachel's help and starts a chain of violence and intrigue on both sides of the Atlantic in which Rachel herself becomes a prime target. She survives three attempts on her life as she battles forward to expose the truth. In the dramatic climax she takes revenge upon the duplicitous authorities, so willing in their self-interest to lie and to kill.