It's 1942, and a body is discovered on the shoreline of a secret training facility in Canada.

Secret or not, this is Canadian territory, and the murder case belongs to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Warned to expect suspicion, if not total obstruction, RCMP Miles Lundin must find a murderer in a camp of trained killers. Fortunately, he is joined in the investigation by a visiting "outsider" from Royal Navy intelligence, Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming.

The questions are clear: who and why? The answers, however, are as murky as the depths of Lake Ontario.