Opus final de la trilogie de Lewis, Le Braconnier du lac perdu est aussi le plus apocalyptique. Tandis que les hommes font face à la puissance dévastatrice de la nature, l’heure des derniers comptes sonne sur Lewis et réclame son lot de victimes.
Winter, January 1945. It is cold and dark, and the German army is retreating from the Russian advance. Germans are fleeing the occupied territories in their thousands, in cars and carts and on foot. But in a rural East Prussian manor house, the wealthy von Globig family tries to seal itself off from the world. Peter von Globig is twelve, and feigns a cough to get out of his Hitler Youth duties, preferring to sledge behind the house and look at snowflakes through his microscope. His father Eberhard is stationed in Italy - a desk job safe from the front - and his bookish and musical mother Katharina has withdrawn into herself. Instead the house is run by a conservative, frugal aunt, helped by two Ukrainian maids and an energetic Pole. Protected by their privileged lifestyle from the deprivation and chaos around them, and caught in the grip of indecision, they make no preparations to leave, until Katharina's decision to harbour a stranger for the night begins their undoing.
Troya, último refugio de las naves que atraviesan el Egeo y pretenden llegar al mar Negro, mantiene una posición estratégica dentro de la red comercial del Mediterráneo oriental que la convierte en diana de todas las codicias. Seiscientos años más tarde, en el siglo VI aC., Solón, legislador ateniense, viaja de Salamina a Egipto donde tiene conocimiento de la destrucción de la ciudad a través de narraciones de Ulises, las cartas de Corinnos y la historia de un mercader asirio. Grandes alianzas y mayores traiciones se dieron en esta gran epopeya, cruce de mito y realidad.