Arisen is the English translation for the German word, Auferstehen, which means arisen from the dead. Jim Wagner, an archeologist from southeast, Missouri, is pulled into the tangled of web of espionage with former members of the East German secret police, the Stasi. These are persons who contend they have become members of the Fourth Reich upon the Berlin Wall coming down, that event leaving them to freelance for the advancement of their beliefs. Dr. Wagner's former colleague, Edward L. Joyce, involves him through an illegal shipment of antiquities from a dig they had both been working on in Carcassone, France. That's when Wagner finds out Joyce too, was a part of the international ring of spies and secret agents. Through no action of his own, Dr. Wagner is soon drawn into the dark web by the association with Joyce, but more by his meeting of the young German girl, Veida Von Strausse, Joyce's former lover. This when the twenty-five year old female becomes the captive of the Fourth Reich after striking up a romance with the older Wagner after Joyce is murdered by the Fourth Reich. Wagner finds a book of dates and places on Joyce's body, among which contains the number to a safe deposit box set in some kind of code that Wagner will have to interpret if he hopes to get the German girl back. The search for Veida takes him back and forth from his southeast, Missouri farm to France and Spain. Along the way he meets a Spanish woman, Maria La Pano who also becomes a contender for his heart. After Veida's kidnapping by the Fourth Reich and the passage of time, Wagner isn't sure whether the German girl is dead or alive. And then he meets the beautiful Spanish woman. He becomes torn, wondering whether he should risk losing the Spanish woman to pursue a ghost? Arisen is a complex tale of love and intrigue, and like all things involved in espionage, it's sometimes hard to tell who is friend and who is foe. And, what chance does an archeologist have against professional spies? As the situation evolves, Wagner learns that's exactly what is required of him if he expects to win the love of his life and the spoils contained within the safe deposit box.