Publisher's Synopsis
Michael Latham is mouldering away in a BBC backwater when he hears reports of a British govenment minister found floating face up in a European river. George Harding was a friend from Cambridge days, and Latham is offered the chance to investigate the death, paid for by the Gazette. Was it sex or murder that killedthe alegedly sado-masochistic, Europhobic MP? Amidst the intrigues of undercover politics and religious zealotry, latham finds both unexpected love and terrifying betrayal at the hands of Germany's latterday Templars.
