The Echelon is about 6 people who specialize in archaeology, radiography, anthropology, forensic pathology and a historian and work with the Organization.
The Echelon are sent to a small rural town called Magdeburg in Germany where a human femur has been found on a school football field which was once the dumping ground of the Nazi's during the Holocaust when they would shoot their victims and leave them in the pit.
While working there they not only find a huge pit filled with remains of the Holocaust victims but also deep under the earth the find a full intact remains of a World War 2 American fighter pilot.
They have to not only deal with the weather and the reluctant authorities but also the school principal and their boss who not only indirectly related but also are butting heads!