Lea Anderson is a soldier in the British Special Forces, but has now come to doubt her career choice. The secrecy, bloodshed, and lack of a normal life are too much for the young woman and she finally decides to quit--but not before going on one more mission in the Middle East to make her team and her stepbrother Paul get through it safely. When their unit runs into an ambush set by the terrorist they are supposed to kill, Lea and Paul get captured and forced to make a life-and-death decision: one of them gets to leave, the other will die. In a moment of weakness, Paul bails, leaving Lea in the terrorist's hands, sure to face her Maker. Years later she returns to the UK, not as a former hostage, but as a soldier fighting the establishment that made her who she now is: a highly-trained avenging angel.

Heroes and Cowards

The gas station attendant at a Mainz gas station was shot. This is the second assault in two weeks, but this time it's fatal. The only witness is the blind law student Rosa Münch, who still lives with her parents and longs for a life beyond the overprotective control of her father. Chief Inspector Ellen Berlinger and her partner Martin Rascher investigate the traces of the two perpetrators and follow the indications of the blind: The smell of an expensive perfume, the voices of suspects, the details heard and felt by Rosa at the crime scene. The commissioners want to put the vulnerable witness under police protection, but the young woman refuses. On the contrary, when another unknown young woman, whose voice sounds familiar, tries to contact Rosa, she keeps it to herself. The experienced investigators suspect that Rosa knows more than she says, and have to continue investigating without their support and resort to unusual methods to prevent further deaths.