American businesswoman Sarah Leonard is supervising the building of a new Hotel in Warsaw,Murders of a most foul and heinous sort begin to happen as a sewer pipe is reopened after many years. The following days will test her faith, her will and her sanity. A good book, in the Masterton way..
Six decapitated corpses with nothing in common aside from death have lately littered Warsaw. That's all the much-suffering, chain-smoking Komisarz Stefan Rej has to go on until the seventh corpse, a radio commentator and outspoken critic of the U.S.-based Senate International Hotels, shows up in the excavated hole that will soon house the multimillion dollar Warsaw Senate Hotel.