With the Cold war fought and won, British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to rural Englang and a new life with his alluring young mistress, Emma. But when both Emma and Cranmer`s star double agent and lifelong rival, Larry Pettifer, disappear, Cranmer is suddenly on the run, searching for his brilliant protege, desperately eluding his former colleagues, in a frantic journey across Europe and into the lawless, battered landscapes of Moscow and southern Russia, to save whatever of his life he has left...