A month earlier, M]ller had succeeded in preventing the commander of an elite American unit from getting killed by his own side, as well as by the Semper; but, through no fault of his own, he had failed to save the colonel's kidnapped wife. This eats at M]ller, who has his own blood feud against the shadowy organization. The Semper's years-long strategy is the infiltration of German society at all levels of influence, in order to subvert it.