Summary

Tim Cranmer, retired secret servant, and Larry Pettifer, 20 years Tim's mercurial double agent against the now vanished Communist threat, have an unresolved rivalry that dates back decades.

Tim Cranmer, retired secret servant, and Larry Pettifer, 20 years Tim's mercurial double agent against the now vanished Communist threat, have an unresolved rivalry that dates back decades. They follow each other into the wilds of Moscow and then Southern Russia until a small, unheard-of nation becomes their proving ground.