For forty years Western intelligence agents have known a terrible secret: the Russians have a mole inside the CIA. His code-name: Talbot.
Talbot is suspected of killing European agents. Then a street-smart ex-cop uncovers a storm of espionage and murder on the streets of New York. Engineered by Talbot, a shadowy world of suspicion and deceit is spilling onto the streets - leading to a new Soviet weapon and a first-strike war plan threatening the very foundations of American government. For the US, time is running out. For Talbot, the time is now.
