Paula Grey's witnesses the murder of Norbert Engel, key German statesman, in Vienna. A veiled woman entered and left the building. Is she a member of the shadowy, sinister Sisterhood? One by one, the elite strong men in a leaderless Europe are assassinated. Tweed suspects a prelude to the takeover of the Continent by a power from the East - but not Russia. What part is played by Captain Wellesley Carrington, wealthy landowner in Dorset, by his neighbour Amos Lodge, eccentric strategist? By Tina Langley, Carrington's glamorpis friend?