Publisher's Synopsis
"Icaria" is set in April 1945 as twenty-five-year-old US army officer Michael Hansen returns to Germany, the country of his birth. His mission is to uncover the role played by a prominent scientist during the Nazi regime. Tasked by the Psychological Warfare Division of the US Army to find out everything he can about the eugenicist Professor Alfred Ploetz's life, Hansen travels to a second-hand bookshop in Munich to meet Ploetz's old friend and intellectual sparring partner.