Sent from Russia to Australia at the height of East-West tensions, Savva Golitsyn has long been an undercover spy, or sleeper, waiting for his call. Now the Cold War is over and he wants to go home. But Savva's reappearance sets in motion a train of events that will impact across three continents.
From Australia to Russia and then to the Sudan, there are those who wish Savva Golitsyn had stayed asleep forever . . .