The motives for this crime are obvious - a jealous wife killed her unfaithful husband and his mistress. But Lieutenant Eve Dallas has doubts about this version. Rejecting obvious evidence, Eva continues her investigation and discovers a global spy network, a grandiose scam and several more corpses. But the intelligence services do not intend to give up their secrets and prefer to go on the offensive: Eva learns that, saving the honor of her uniform, they are ready to make public such facts of her biography as which Eva herself is afraid to remember...