Maarten Dannenberg

Europol agent Simon Fox is ridden with guilt after accidentally killing a child. Struggling to deal with the trauma, he finds out about a covert post-war resistance organisation named Gladio.

In 1934 Diego Padilla wins the Spanish Championship of Chess and meets a French journalist, Marianne Latour, and they fall in love. Marianne convinces Diego to live in France with their daughter, where shortly afterwards Diego will be accused of spying by the Nazis and imprisoned. Diego will try to survive in a hostile environment thanks to Colonel Maier's passion for chess.