Ksiaz Castle in Poland becomes entwined in the hunt for a lost Nazi gold train; Asa "Buddy" Candler, Jr., heir to Coca-Cola, gets caught in a web of controversy involving Briarcliff Mansion near Atlanta, Georgia; and Mountshannon House, an estate in County Limerick, is embroiled in Ireland's fight for freedom.

A military base in Panama becomes a battleground between American forces and a drug-running tyrant; a life cut short in Italy turns a utopian dream into a nightmare; a grisly Polish facility finds itself caught between two regimes.