A murdered WWII refugee. A lost Vermeer. An assassination plot. One chance to stop a war. A former WWII refugee tells Vit Partenkas, head of the Lithuanian watchdog group Baltic Watch, a story so explosive it could drive the Russian army from Ukraine. Vit doesn't believe the messenger until she's silenced with a bullet. Guided by her hand-written memoir, Vit follows a perilous trail from South America to Berlin, uncovering a priceless Vermeer painting and a shadowy figure determined to kill him. If Vit survives, he could unseat Russia's first female president provided assassins don't get to her first. If he fails, the oil oligarchs, and the Russian way, will shape the fate of Europe and the world.