"The terrible struggle that was WWII is over--the Germans have won and now occupy London--[and] it's up to a hardened British detective to turn the tables, save someone's life, and achieve what he has believed was impossible: redemption"--

Simon Bogner investigates the not too brotherly activities in an Anglican Friary.

After being struck in the throat by a musket ball, Bartholomew Hoare can't manage more than a whisper, but he finds himself in charge of a ship again, off to investigate "the murder of two Navy captains, brothers, whose bodies, or parts of them, were found in the forest."--Jacket.