The Penalty of Hoping

Willi Koenig is a celebrity journalist and a highly respected television 'talking head'; but he counts himself a failure. He had written exposed urged and did battle year after year yet little if anything changed. </P><P>While struggling with his deep `mid-life' crisis he accidentally comes across the one person he never expected to see again; a former Wermacht officer and convicted war criminal who had vowed to kill Koenig if they ever met again. Koenig has a choice: either discover and write about how a ex-war criminal managed to get into the United States or end his depression with his own personal assassin. </P><P>Koenig moves back and forth between the two paths sowing confusion and pain for those around him especially his wife. Koenig's `assassin' is also conflicted. He's trying to forget his crazed vow of decades ago in order to fulfill an undercover mission. </P>