A murderer riddles the police, he seems to kill systematically and is very clever. Only the author Adrian Messenger can anticipate who could be behind it. On a list he writes all persons down who fought with him in the war in Burma. With his own name ten others are on the list- the names of witnesses of a war crime in Burma. But also the author can’t escape his destiny. He is killed in a cryptic planecrash. Admittedly, before his death, he was able to hand his list to the secret agent Anthony Gethryn who now has the necessary hint to start the hunt on the murder with the mask…