Grace Flint:The best undercover cop in the buisness and - since plastic surgeons re-built her shattered face - pronably the most beautiful. Now Flint has a new career running operations, directing other agents in the field...and she's running headlong into trouble.

Operation Pentecost:An eloaborate sting designed by Flint to trap Karl Grober. former East German spy turned financial manipulator with a reputation for ruthlessness. But Pentecost has become a snare for Flint's undercover agents:a death trap. One agent is already dead, and the evidence of treachery is mounting.

Mandrake:M16 codename for the traitor close enough to Flint to anticipate every move she makes;someone uniquely placed to betray her. Who is Mandrake and who in the US goverment is determined to protect him?