1952 - pre-war soccer star and RAF fly-boy cum POW Eddie Keyworth is found dead in the flat lands of Eastern England. Good guy cop David Cropwell and feisty MI5 man Gordon Pye search communist Poland for the shadow of the man they say got too close to his German captors. And what links Eddie with a former Nazi pin-up hero, the changling Jewish newsagent and the daughter of anti-Hitlerite resistor who's died once already? And what about Stemp - the bad apple - the ruthless ex-commando who's playing his own game for Moscow. Out of the besieged city of Breslau into the cold war world of Wroclaw comes an answer - of sorts.