Kit Fournier, a disaffected former American officer, goes deep undercover and sides with the enemy at the height of the Cold War. Giving a unique look into the CIA in London, Kit faces not only the looming arms race and an impending H-bomb apocalypse but also a crisis of the soul-brought about by the unveiling of his own dark, personal secret that might prove more deadly than the dispatches he's decoding.

"On the trail of Soviet infiltrator Stanislav Shumovsky, codenamed Agent BLÉRIOT, Svetlana Lokhova takes the reader on a thrilling journey through Stalin's most audacious intelligence operation. On a sunny September day in 1931, a Soviet spy walked down the gangplank of the luxury transatlantic liner SS Europa and into New York. Attracting no attention, Stanislav Shumovsky had completed his journey from Moscow to enroll at a top American university....

Discusses the famous espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, covering both the prosecution and defense, the government's pursuit of this couple, and the aftermath of the trial.