A Russian actor on the KGB payroll...

A middle aged wife with a fatal sense of guilt...

A seductive Slav beauty, fuel for an ageing diplomat''s sexual
fantasies...

A severely compromised British ambassador to Moscow who
will return to Britain as the Prime Minister''s personal advisor...

Their shadowy dance has begun to a tune of betrayal, disillusionment
and death, and a nation''s fate hangs in the balance.

''A truly classic writer of espionage fiction'' - Len Deighton