When her sight returns as mysteriously as it disappeared ten years before, Julia Austrian, a world-class concert pianist, is astonished and thrilled. But her euphoria shatters when she witnesses her mother's brutal murder - a trauma that hurls her back into her dark and lonely world. Blind, yet the only person who can identify her mother's attacker, Julia vows to find the killer, and unwittingly plunges into a violent whirlwind of deceit, lust and greed - a conspiracy of hidden forces with the power to manipulate the law, the banks and the media, reaching from New York to the White House and the inner sanctums of the CIA.
Involving corruption in a leading American political family, long-lost Nazi war treasure and high-level Washington intrigue, this is an electrifying, intricately plotted story bristling with action and suspense that never stops accelerating from its first page to its last.
