American operative Ambrose Lincoln has no idea where he is or has been
or where he's going. He believes he has been to the night side of dark, a
place of the first death, from which no one can return. So why does he
find himself on the bomb-ruined landscape of Poland, or has he been
exiled to the second death? Lincoln only realizes, if the man in the
shadows has not lied to him, he must find an ancient religious painting
that has been missing for centuries. The German Gestapo will pay a
fortune to buy it, or take a man's life to get it. The painting, if
legend holds true, is the German hierarchy's final and only chance to
escape the onslaught of the war that is crumbling around their feet.
