Karl Lubeck is a private eye in the mold of those great 40's movie detectives. But unfortunately, he has seen better days. After his wife is murdered, Karl loses his 'fire' and disappears underground into Munich, Germany. He resurfaces as a hired snoop for Earth Now, a radical ecology group.
Enter the beautiful and mysterious secret agent Petra Schmitt. She hires Karl to find her missing sister and Karl soon finds himself drawn into a world of half-truths and lies as his simple missing-person case develops into a murder case that quickly becomes international in scope. Petra and Karl must work together in order to thwart Petrov, a cold-blooded gangster, who will kill anyone who gets in his way.
Lubeck discovers that the Petrov and his fellow mobsters are after a computer chip containing international banking codes developed for the European Central Bank. When he learns that Petra Schmidt is a secret agent working for the council and that her supposed sister was the agent who was assigned to guard the chip, he doesn't know who to trust.
Where does the truth lie... and will Karl Lubeck survive to find out?
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