JULY 1945.  FOR GERMANY THE WAR IS OVER.

But in POW Camp 8 on the outskirts of Garmisch, one man refuses to believe his duty to the fatherland is finished.  Erich Syess, once on of Germany’s greatest Olympic sprinters, now awaits trial for war crimes committed as a fanatical officer in Hitler’s SS.  But he has no intention of facing his accusers.  Instead, he is determined to run one last race for Germany.

Given only seven days to track Seyss down, Devlin Judge, a lawyer with the international Military Tribunal set up to try Nazi war criminals, faces and almost impossible task.  Not only must he outwit an elite killer trained to operate behind enemy lines, but he must also fathom the extraordinary conspiracy to which Seyss is the key.  A conspiracy that could change the face of Europe forever………..