series about Army CID Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor, set five years after the first novel, The Deserter, we find that Brodie at least has spent the last few years doing routine cases in the hinterland with worthless partners. There has been no contact with Maggie at all and he has been warned in the strongest terms not to discuss what took place in Venezuela. The setting for the latest novel in this series, which is a detective series that has elements of espionage and black ops military action, we travel to unified Berlin. Though the city was unified over twenty years earlier and the only remnants of the wall are found in museums, presidential libraries, or a thin line painted in the roadway, it is difficult to escape the ghosts of the past. As Scott and Maggie investigate the death of one of their own in a park at night without backup, there is little that makes sense. The death may be related to the Islamic terror cells that have immigrated to Germany in the wake of a refugee crisis from the Syrian Civil War or it might be related to other secrets. Scott and Maggie play the role of tireless investigators, but they are out of their element and without much authority or jurisdiction to accomplish much other than to piss off their host country or their superiors in Washington, D.C. This is a well-written and exciting novel that is hard to put down once you open it up.