ISIS Publishing Ltd

Synopsis

When, one spring day in 1985, Anton Casey Jarvis marches into the Soviel embassy in Washington offering his services as an informer, little do the KGB suspect that this is their first encounter with the most valuable asset they ever had. Yuri Volkov, the high ranking KGB officer appointed as Jarvis's controller, comes to despise the weak and feckless American prepared to send men to their deaths for financial gain. A man of principal himself, becoming increasingly disaffected with policies of his own country, Volkov cannot come to terms with Jarvis's lack of ideological motivation. Larry Getz is the senior CIA officer assigned the unenviable task af hunting down the traitor in their midst. Operating within an arganisation riddled with ineptitude and low morale, Getz finds himself up against apolitical system more concerned with protecting the individual's right to privacy than seeking out the truth. And so begins a cat and mouse game of danger and deception, bluff and double-bluff in which it becomes clear that if Getz is to succeed he'll have to bend the rules and violate the sanctity of the US constitution. Does the end justify the means? And just how dirty is Getz prepared to play?