**In the summer of 1909, an unassuming English bobby crossed paths with
Russian royalty. Now, a century later, the secret entrusted to him is
about to be revealed.
**
Richard Eusden is on his way to work in London one unremarkable winter
morning when he is intercepted by his ex-wife, who asks him to ferry an
old attaché case to their friend Marty Hewitson in Brussels. Richard
expects to be back in London within the day, but in Belgium, Marty is
nowhere to be found. Instead, Richard comes face-to-face with a ruthless
kidnapper and his outrageous demand: the attaché case in exchange for
Marty's life.
The desperate attempt to save his old friend sets Richard off on a race
across Germany and then north, first to Copenhagen, then to Helsinki.
Whatever the contents of the case, they link a Danish tycoon and his
family's dark secret to the deaths of several innocent people. And now
that secret is beginning to tug at the threads of a larger mystery--one
involving the fate of the Grand Duchess Anastasia, last of the Romanovs.