After seizing control of Hamburg's underworld, the fragile empire of "Artist of Death" Julia Westphal and her partners comes under attack from two sides: A brutal copycat perpetrator mocks her art on the streets, while an obsessed ex-commissioner threatens to expose her secret triumvirate. To survive, Julia must play a deadly game on an international stage, forcing her to forge alliances with her worst enemies and confront the true, terrifying nature of her own power.One year after the events of "A Signature in Steel," Julia Westphal and her brilliant partners, the twins Gabriel and Isabelle, have transformed the criminal "Consortium" into their personal, surgical instrument. They reign as invisible gods over Hamburg's underworld. But their perfect, cold order is shaken by a series of brutal murders. An unknown individual imitates Julia's "corrections," yet perverts her art into a bloody, clumsy spectacle, leaving the political slogan "ORDER" at the crime scenes.