Ein alter Leuchtturm. Ein Toter. Ein tief verborgenes Geheimnis. Auf dem Leuchtturm Falshöft an der Flensburger Förde wird die Leiche des Standesbeamten Ole Hansen gefunden. Auch sonst steht die Polizei vor einem großen Rätsel, denn Feinde scheint Ole Hansen keine gehabt zu haben. Dafür aber großes Interesse an dem geschichtsträchtigen Gebäude, in dem er hinterrücks erschossen wurde. Die Kriminalhauptkommissare Birte Lohse und Rainer Speckmann übernehmen die Ermittlungen.

An Underground carriage in London is destroyed by a suicide bomber. The injured and the dead litter the platform. But as a crowd forms at street level, Michael Pope knows that this is only the beginning. Pope, head of top-secret Group Fifteen, is tasked with finding the perpetrators of this atrocity and bringing them to justice, any way he can. He knows that the answers to many of his questions will lie at the end of the money trail, but he also knows that whoever funded and organised the attack will kill again for their freedom.

Framed for treason and on the run, Thomas Caine will stop at nothing to clear his name and avenge his partner's death. As he races to keep the authorities off his tail, a CIA insider offers to hide his tracks if he accepts one more black ops mission. With the help of a beautiful doctor, Caine pursues the virus into the war-torn region of South Sudan, where he uncovers shocking secrets that could solve the mystery of his betrayal.