"In the autumn of 1945 Karl Baier a young American military officer arrives in a devastated Berlin the once mighty capital of the Third Reich. His assignment: to hunt down debrief and in some cases resettle German scientists who helped build the German war machine.

He is not alone however as America's allies during the war have become competitors in the search for Germany's scientific and industrial elite. Baier soon finds himself romantically involved with a local woman whose husband disappeared on the eastern front a woman whose husband shares Baier's name. The young American agrees...