For the past four years, a high-ranked Russian naval officer named Viktor Archenko has been passing valuable information to MI6. His contacts in London know nothing about him--but when the flow of information stops, they know for sure that heÂ’s under suspicion. The time has come to get him out. But a new breed plays the spy game now: men like Gabriel Locke. Locke has no interest in irrelevant Cold War sparring or the risk of a scandal. He would rather leave Archenko to fend for himself. Only one veteran agent realizes that there is much more at stake than one man's life.