In 1944, Willy Horvitz was a brilliant young physicist. Fervently anti-Nazi, he was coerced into leading a research and development effort to design and build a revolutionary new aircraft to turn the tide of the war. Adopted as an orphaned American boy by a wealthy German industrialist, Willy was haunted throughout his life by the tragic loss of his mother. The kind of loss he hoped wouldn’t be repeated if the personal secrets of those he held dear were revealed.
In 2008, Parker Dundee is a brilliant but unhappy young professor. While sifting through the possessions of his recently deceased father, Parker makes an unsettling discovery: his father was far more than the mid-level State Department bureaucrat he always portrayed himself to be. The deeper Parker gets into the labyrinth of his father’s secret life, the more attention he draws from sinister quarters.
Tying them together is the elusive “Mr. Abernathy”, a man known only through enigmatic references in scattered documents and journals spanning more than 100 years. His identity and secrets are of intense interest to the CIA, Russian thugs, and a mysterious band of men known only as The Joneses.
Determined to know who his father really was, Parker realizes he must first solve a larger and far more dangerous puzzle: who was Mr. Abernathy?
