When a major espionage cell at the heart of British Intelligence is blown, unlikely hero and pint-sized Soviet spymaster Stanislav Paslov discovers the leak came from inside the Kremlin. 
He begins his search for the traitor, but Moscow is in turmoil, Stalin is dying, the vultures are gathering, and the stench of betrayal is everywhere. 
With no one in Moscow he can trust, and time running out, Paslov finally decides to seek help from one of his old adversaries in Washington D.C. 
Reluctant spy and loner hero Gerald Hammond returns, in this gripping and powerful tale of lust, lies and conspiracy, and of a brutal reckoning that irreparably changed the course of world history.