A scorching summer of 2012… Britain’s treacherous attack on its longtime ally—the North American United States—succeeded. At least, that’s how it seemed to the British themselves. Only outside intervention from the Russian Empire could reverse the situation—but Britain had a reliable safeguard: the emperor Nicholas III’s family was held hostage. No one can knock this trump card out of the hands of London’s schemers—except the Russian intelligence officer, Admiral Count Vorontsov, who is used to carrying out impossible assignments. Especially when the prize is victory in the raging Second World War!