Cenk Batu's latest assignment takes him behind the scenes of the world of finance. He is part of a concerted action by the government around the new Chancellor Grasshof, in which several undercover investigators were smuggled into banks with the aim of uncovering illegal financial transactions and obtaining concrete evidence against the opaque system.
At the bank, Andreas Dobler, a young and particularly unscrupulous trader, is targeted by the investigations. But things spiral out of control after Cenk observes a secret meeting between Dobler and the mysterious Valerie. 20 years ago, Valerie was a contract killer wanted around the world. Now the strange woman has returned, terminally ill, to carry out one last assignment: the assassination of Chancellor Grasshof...