Men vanish all the time; often because that's what they've chosen to do. Sent to investigate the disappearance of John Bellman, DI Jim Meldrum wonders why the Chief Constable is taking a personal interest in what appears to be a routine case.

Just who is - or was - John Bellman?

Meldrum's enquiries take on a new - and sinister - significance when he's summoned to Oslo to be told that the murder of a local businessman connects Bellman to the most dangerous neo-Nazi group to emerge since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Meldrum doggedly pursues the truth across the Atlantic where the elements of Bellman's past come into violent collision. Only then can he return home to seek out and destroy the roots of a spreading evil.