PI Gerhard Self is lured out of retirement by a seemingly straightforwardassignment: to find the former sleeping partner at Welker & Welker, aprestigious private bank. But the case soon throws up many more questionsthan answers, and Self finds himself embroiled in a shady world ofmoney-laundering, mafia and murder...What secrets is the bank's history hiding? Why are the institution'senigmatic masters - Herr Welker and his steely Russian foster brother -trying to ensnare Self in their dangerous game, and just who is thestranger claiming to be Self's long-lost son?