A long-lost erotic film discovered in Pittsburgh leading to the search for a descendent of Austrian Emperor Franz Josef, the disappearance of a rogue NSA cyber-spy in Turkey, a West Virginia artist witnessing a ritual Japanese suicide, the assassination of a top general in Iran, a secret revealed from a youthful dalliance by a beloved priest, an airport bomb blast in Istanbul leading to incarceration in an ancient sanatorium, and a surprising conclusion involving an undercover British agent, an eager American intelligence analyst, and a return to St. Wolfgang.