An American forensic sculptor, reconstructing the faces of three victims, receives a midnight visit from a man who threatens her life unless she alters the faces she's almost completed. An accent coach unravels the mystery of the Assistant Minister of Propaganda in Vienna during World War II. When bodies start turning up under the former Propaganda Offices, some date from the war period--but others are much older, dating back to the Ottoman siege of Vienna. This novel in triptych is told through interconnected threads pulled taut by crimes long ago relegated to history.