A lost pawn ticket. An old charm bracelet. A secret key. In the hands of Alex Lomax, a wide-boy London market trader transplanted to Berlin, they lead to the greatest secret of WW2 — the order for the extermination of the Jews. Lomax wants money. But other, darker, forces are at play that plunge him into a vortex of intrigue and murder as he races to secure the secret for himself.