It is 1959 and the Canadian Navy is at the forefront in the area of anti-submarine warfare systems research and development. The RCMP has received information from the FBI in theStates, warning of a possible Soviet plan to send agents to the port city to steal whatever they can. Thompson, who is just back from an assignment in the Northwest Territories and the DEW Line network is not overly happy about the assignment. He was expecting a well deserved week's vacation with the love of his life, not another mission, particularly down in Atlantic Canada. When he arrives he quickly learns that security, as such, seems sketchy at best and is run by a British naval officer, Jules Swanson, but on closer examination he sees that it is much more comprehensive. Over the course of a week, he uncovers several people working for the navy who are also working for the Soviets and soon gets a line on the agents sent here. Everything is resolving itself nicely until the day Pavlo Palyvoda arrives.

It never rains but it pours as the old saw goes. It looked like the truth of this saying was about to play out for Robie and his partner, Pete Duncan. First on their plate was the discovery of a young teenage girl found by a night patrolman lying behind bushes on Chebucto Road who had been raped. Next, Robie is sent to investigate an accident on a ship in for repairs in which a man died. He soon uncovers a conspiracy by local businessmen to use inferior materials, and last, Pete goes after moonshiners who are peddling poison booze through local bootleggers. War brings out the best in people at times: heroism; sacrifice, while in others only evil and opportunism. Robie and Pete relentlessly pursue the three cases with a sense of anger and determination

The job was hard enough since Halifax became the focal point as the major staging area for the convoys supplying the war effort in England. Robichaud has his hands full dealing with the influx of people looking for work, foreign merchantmen looking for distractions from the perils of convoy duty and servicemen waiting transport across the Atlantic. Compounding his headaches is the growing shortages for affordable housing and the prohibitions on liquor sales in the city. Now he has a murder to deal with. The dead man with a hole in his head was fished from the water just outside the anti-submarine nets by a local fishing boat. His name was Denny Cafferty, a suspected IRA soldier who fled Ireland and the British Special Branch. Robichaud and his partner, Pete Duncan, soon find themselves up to their necks with more murders and a homicidal German spy.

Late one night, while tending to his trap-line, a native Inuit stumbles across a clandestine rendezvous not far from one of the DEW line radar sites and is subsequently shot and killed. This incident brings RCMP intelligence officer, Inspector Jesse Thompson to the north. He gradually uncovers a Soviet network involving an agent and a paid mole in the Shingle Point site.

Murder mystery set in Halifax, Nova Scotia during the Second World War. Halifax is struggling with the new demands placed on the city as, once again, it gears up to be the leading demarcation point for men and materials to support the war effort against the Nazis. Among the many new pressures that the police have to contend with, they are now faced with a murder. As Detective John Robichaud begins his investigation into two murders, he soon comes into contact with the city's growing criminal activities such as, bootlegging, prostitution, black marketeering. He learns that these are mostly controlled by one man with connections to mob organization known as the Corse Unione, a group based in Marseilles, France and now here in Montreal. He also discovers the existence of a German agent and joins forces with Sgt Phil Mulroney of the RCMP.