1953. After the disaster of Dunkirk, Britain and her Empire are diminished. Nazi Germany controls much of Europe and a vast African territory. There has been no Holocaust. Instead, the Jews have been exiled to the island of Madagaskar. Five million crammed into a tropical ghetto ruled by the SS.
Burton Cole is alone in this world. Returning to Britain after a fatally compromised mission to Africa, the former mercenary finds his lover, Madeleine, has disappeared. Desperate to discover her fate, he is drawn into a conspiracy that will lead him back to the Dark Continent.
Meanwhile, the man who has haunted Burton’s whole life, Walter Hochburg the Nazi Governor of Kongo, has turned his attention to Madagaskar. He has heard of certain scientists among the prisoner population – scientists who could develop a new weapon of unimaginable power.
But Hochburg is not the only one looking to Madagaskar. The British want to destroy the island’s naval base to bring America into a war against the Reich. They have found the ideal man for the task: Reuben Salois, the only Jew to have escaped the island. The only one brave, or foolhardy, enough to return.
These three men, driven by different hopes and ambitions, will converge on Madagaskar. One way or the other, the fate of the world is in their hands...
