Organised crime in the local allotment society? Surely not. Jennifer Renshaw is settling into a comfortable suburban life until she becomes the victim of a 'drive by onion attack' and a barely concealed threat. Evidence of the involvement of a sinister fraternity and the suspicious death of an elderly allotment holder leads her in to an investigation which takes her across Europe. Distant echoes of the defeat of nazism chime as Jennifer confronts a new threat to the freedom of humanity.