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 is suddenly shattered when she is the only witness to her mother's brutal murder - a trauma that hurls her back into her dark and lonely world. Vowing to find her mother's killer, Julia plunges into a violent whirlwind of deceit, lust and greed - caught up in a conspiracy that reaches from New York to the White House and the inner sanctums of the CIA, a fifty-year-old tale of high-level Washington intrigue, long-lost Nazi war treasure and corruption in a power-hungry American political family.
