Lt. Andrew Richards, who becomes a patient in an enemy field hospital during the WWII is tended by a German nurse who also becomes victim of the chaos thrust upon the world at that time. After the war, Andrew interrupts his law schooling to go to Germany for one year in which time he attempts to find the woman who had helped him. While there, he meets other victims of the war...some friendly ones and some not so friendly. Pursuit of the Nightingale is the story of of a soldier and an enemy nurse whose identity remains an elusive puzzle. Will Andy find her before he must return to America?