Two German tourists die in traffic accidents in Egypt. Their bodies are used to transport a huge amount of dol­lar bills into Germany. Why are the responsible German authorities not in­ter­est­ed in this case? In the guise of a Canadian journalist Jack Boul­der is sent to Egypt by a minor German sec­ret service to inquire about the background, tra­vel­ing with a German government mi­ni­ster's de­le­ga­tion. Un­in­ten­tio­nal­ly, an airline physician gives Boulder a lead that finally takes him to Spain. Apparently, money trafficking is but a sideline in the context of events. They have their root in re­cent German history, former East-West busi­ness relations kept alive, and are far more com­pli­cat­ed and con­vo­lu­ted than everybody thought. And they happen on the level of the new fast and loose German elite. The novel is set in 2004 in Berlin, Cairo, the Li­byan desert , Basel, Potsdam, re­mi­ni­scen­ces of Budapest in the 1950s and East Berlin in the 1970s, Madrid, An­da­lu­sia, and Tuscany ... as the world turns. Another book featuring Jack Boulder, his friend Lasz­lo Nagy, Dr. Schall, and Jack Boulder's friend Annabel Conti, who still works for a Swiss bank.