This title is about: the missing man - Harting, refugee background, a Junior Something in the British Embassy in Bonn; the missing files - forty-three of them, all Confidential or above; and, the timing - appalling and probably not accidental; radical students and neo-Nazis rioting; critical negotiations in Brussels. London's security officer, Alan Turner, is sent to Bonn to locate the missing man and files as Germany's past, present and future threaten to collide in a nightmare of violence.