THE RED ARMY IS ENTRENCHED IN THE VERY HEART OF GERMANY... Tyrannical communist rule based on state terror begins as the repressive regime launches a campaign of international espionage.

Working against all odds, British lieutenant Ben Fletcher goes undercover to level the score and gain vital nuclear intelligence for the West. Pursuing the same goal, ruthless Stalinist authorities are prepared to pull out all the stops to wreck his mission.

Decades later, Detective-Sergeant Lillian Boyd faces high stakes. A tragically unsolved roadside hit-and-run death spirals into an urgent quest to expose an insidious nest of foreign spies, orchestrated by an ambitious spymaster. Their aim: an audacious coup against an unsuspecting prime minister.

The past may just hold the answers Lillian needs to thwart a conspiracy that threatens to change the balance of political power forever.