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October 1984. At a London memorial for Detective Deven Smith—an American investigator found dead in Poland—Mayhew Brown meets the widow, who doesn't believe the official story of suicide. She hires him to find the truth. January 1985. Mayhew and his partner, Margret Rose, arrive in Pustków, a decaying mountain city in Communist Poland, where ten people have vanished over a period of ten years. The investigation begins, but quickly goes into total chaos as the two detectives realize that the murderer is not like the rest they had caught in the past.