The iron curtain has clanged down across post-war Europe, and 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 in to 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.