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The first thing Woodrow Cain sees when he steps off the train in New York City on February 9, 1942, is smoke from an ocean liner in flames in the harbor. It s the "Normandie, " and word on the street is that it was burned by German saboteurs. Ten lousy minutes in New York and already his new life felt as full of loss and betrayal as the one he d left behind. What he left behind in a small North Carolina town was a wife who d left him, a daughter in the care of his sister, and a career as a police officer marred by questions surrounding his partner s murder. When he gets a job with the NYPD, he wants to believe it s the beginning of a new life, though he suspects that the past is as tenacious as a parasite in the bloodstream. It s on the job that Cain comes in contact with a man who calls himself Danziger.