When the businessman Franz Xaver Spechtenhauser blows up with his Cessna, nobody thinks of murder. The spectacular robbery of some gold bars leads the detectives to follow a line of investigation involving organized crime. But from the man’s past clues emerge that cast great doubts on his history and identity. Who was Spechtenhauser in reality? A respectable family man or a tyrant? A nazi criminal or a man of charity? A corrupt politician or an ambassador of peace? A professional charity man or an international trader? Another case for Commissario Laurenti who will solve the mistery with the help of Pina Cardareto and of his novice Xenia Ylenia Zannier. Who has killed Spechtenhauser? And why?
