Los Angeles, 1943. In Hollywood, a woman floats lifeless in the pool of one of California's trendiest hotels. American-born secret agent and British spy Maggie Hope learns that this woman was engaged to her former fiancée, John Sterling, and he suspects her death was no accident. Leaving London under siege is a lot to ask—but in this tenth thriller, following The King's Justice—Maggie sets out for her homeland, finding that the political situation in America is more complicated, and dangerous, than the newsreels would have them all believe.