Sally King's dream evening, when she just knew her boyfriend would ask her to marry him, turns into a nightmare. Philip is found dead in his apartment with another man (also dead), the apparent victim of a heart attack during lurid lovemaking. Devastated, Sally can't leave it alone. She knows Philip was not the man the police and others are portraying him to be.

As Sally struggles to find her balance, Paris is in a panic. The Nazis are approaching and most people are fleeing. Sally, though, can't think beyond the fact that Philip is dead and she must find out what happened. Enlisting the help of her embassy, Sally's grief appeals to Joe Hearst, a diplomat who would like to see her on the first ship back to the States.

What Joe and Sally don't know is that their lives soon will be just one thread in a complex woof and warp of cloth -- and they are crucial to keeping a deadly weapon out of Nazi hands.

The plotting in this book is so complex that it is difficult to summarize here. Numerous characters are portrayed succinctly and eloquently so the reader knows them after just a nodding acquaintance. This book is not just sitting on a shelf for entertainment value. You'll utilize the gray matter to follow the twists and turns of Ms. Mathews multi-layered plotting. If it's not enough to create terrific, 3D characters and an intriguing plot, the setting alone notches the tension into the red. An extremely well-done book that I highly recommend.