Well-known businessman Peet Hoffman is shot dead late at night in his study.
A few days later, a couple is murdered in their weekend home in the bush. The female victim is killed in a much more gruesome manner, but the modus operandi of all three murders shows clear similarities.
Why did Terese Ebersohn’s murderer hate her with such passion? And how are the three murders connected to the kidnapping of an elderly man shortly afterward?
Major Alek Strauss finds himself in the middle of a small war in which the mysteries of the present can only be solved by the past.