When a young, mentally disabled Israeli girl, the daughter of a diplomat, is found brutally murdered with the letters DVLL inscribed on her pocket, her father denies the possibility of a political motive. Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis jump on the case. There are no signs of struggle, no evidence of sexual assault, no apparent motive at all.

Working together with Daniel Sharavi, a brilliant Israeli police inspector, Delaware and Sturgis soon find themselves ensnared in one of the darkest, most menacing cases of their careers. And when death strikes again, it is Alex who must go undercover, alone, to expose an unthinkable conspiracy of self-righteous brutality and total contempt for human life.