novel. In 1929, young Swiss Max Wittacher falls into the circles of folk esotericists, Grail seekers and Nazi supporters. Thanks to his talent as a masseur and his enthusiasm for automobiles, he quickly rises to become the physiotherapist of Reinhard Heydrich, who is just at the beginning of his murderous career. After the "Machtergreifung", Max is implicated by Reichsführer-SS Himmler and a French secret society in a plot to secure the power of the Holy Grail for the SS. Only when the Nazis begin to murder his friends and his mother becomes their victim does Max realise who he has become involved with
