The President of the United States has appointed Kirk McGarvey interim director of the CIA while his nomination winds its way through Congressional hearings. But what should have been the culmination of McGarvey's career, has activated a twenty-two-year-old Russian plot sponsored by his former archenemy, General Baranov. Now, McGarvey is in the Kill Zone. Part of a plot that didn't know the Cold War was over, a plot that comes at McGarvey full throttle - from the grave of an enemy that McGarvey had buried decades before.