Twelve-year-old Amy Sutter steals the experimental spacecraft Liberty Bell to rescue her father and his colleagues from alien captors called the Crownaxians. She is pursued by Lt. Yale Brown, the officer in charge of the ship's security, who has orders to bring back the Liberty Bell at any cost.

Naive SS officer Blaz Schaffer is assigned guard duty at Auschwitz in Poland in 1944 after suffering an injury in battle. While stationed at the camp, he visits Solahutte, a nearby resort for German personnel, and he falls in love with Sara, a worker at the lodge. Schaffer clashes with his fellow soldiers over their ruthless treatment of the camp prisoners, particularly the head guard, Wilhelm Gratzfirmer, a psychopathic Nazi who enjoys torturing and murdering the captives. He also runs afoul of Dr. Joseph Mengele, the notorious camp doctor who decides the fates of the prisoners as they...

The murder of a human engineer aboard a space station is investigated by a human-hating alien named Colton, a lawman from the planet Grell who is forced to take the case after suffering a professional setback. Colton suspects every member of the victim's crew, and he uncovers secrets that may have led to the horrible crime. With his life in danger, the detective must overcome interplanetary prejudice and put his own bigotry aside in order to solve the case and bring the killer to justice.