Bernard Samson is back! The intrepid, insolent, and enigmatic British agent--and hero of Deighton's blockbuster series (Spy Hook, Spy Line, Spy Sinker)--stars in the first of a new trilogy. It is 1987 and the Cold War is turning to "ice". Nothing is the way it seems, and Bernard Samson is caught between his ethics and his job, his past and his future, and the two women he loves.