Michael Gladieux is trained to kill. Part of a special combat squad in Vietnam known as The Group, he has witnessed every kind of atrocity. Now, back in the states, his world is assaulted by a new horror when his father is brutally murdered. Found with the body are a note accusing hiis father of being a Nazi collaborator and a glass pendant of a salamander anchored to his heart with a shiny steel spike.

Michael's furious search for his father's elusive killers eventually leads to Europe. There, aided by a beautiful Frenchwoman, he uncovers a harrowing plot of death and destruction that began in the French resistance ... that lives on today as a secret conspiracy of terror aimed at the heart of the free world.

Suddenly he is the target of the world's deadliest men. Now he will need every ounce of his cunning to stay alive - and obliterate the nightmare of Salamandra forever.