The Master File on Steve Champion has been re-opened. Champion: enigmatic, charming, urbane, cunning - the flamboyant hero and leader of the old Villefranche anti-Nazi intelligence group, the Guernica network.

Of all the survivors of that network, only Charlie is still in the spy business - or so it seems. Then terrifying rumours of Champion's sinister Arab connections and the ultimate weapon-smuggling plot filter through to the top levels of British and American intelligence. Champion's closest wartime friend was Charlie. So Charlie is sent to find out what yesterday's spy is up to...