"It is summer, 1939. At Buckingham Palace, the King is receiving his guests at the royal garden party. On the continent the new Chancellor of Germany is also holding a reception. But a more personal drama is taking place against the false glitter of state occasions as Europe moves helplessly towards war. A young English girl, infatuated with Adolf Hitler, shoots herself in Berlin; soon afterwards her brother undertakes a mission so hazardous that others are already being trained to replace him, and so secret that its purpose is known only to a few men - among them the King of England and the President of the United States. The scenes shift with increasing tension, from a desolate landing strip on the English coast to the hellish confines of the concentration camps: from the apartment in Berlin where Hedda von Gerlach endures terror and humiliation at the hands of a Gestapo officer, to the German countryside where a senior SS general dies with his brains blown out.

Against the background of Hitler's demonic drive for world power, Martin Benedict, alias SS Colonel Brinkman, pursues his desperate mission to prevent the total destruction of the civilised world. This is the story of a man who, thrust headlong into the nightmare of the third Reich, embarks on a crusade against the forces of darkness to become the notorious 'Der Jaeger' the hunter - a silent and ruthless killer whose vestiges of humanity find protection only in the woman who loves him, even beyond betrayal."