Unlike most people Matt Beckford is actually looking forward to tuning thirty. After struggling through most of his twenties, he thinks his career, finances and love life are finally sorted. But when he splits up with his girlfriend, he realises that life has different plans for him and Matt temporarily moves back home to his parents.

April Taub is a thirty-something rebel with a cause. Given to over-indulgence in food, drink, sex, cigarettes and anguish, this daughter of Holocaust survivors is an undercover hunter of Nazi war criminals. A moment of indiscretion sees her stumbling onto a nationwide conspiracy with potentially fatal consequences to herself and her organisation. Armed with her new persona and her mordant wit, April plunges into an escapade that takes her on a sinister odyssey across the continent. When the desert sand finally stops flying, she realises that none of the people she's trusted are exactly what they seem. A seriously funny, wisecracking young woman, April Taub is a one-of-a-kind hero with flaws and foibles to spare.