As the dust settles after the demise of the Cold War, Charlie Muffin must thwart a plan that could bring the world to the brink of nuclear holocaust   It has been more than five years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and Charlie Muffin, Britain's cagiest spy, is beginning to feel obsolete. As the machine of state intelligence is dismantled around him, he expects that he too will soon be on the scrap heap. But Britain needs him in Russia one...

Hiding his marriage to a Russian intelligence colonel with an awareness that discovery would result in her execution, MI5 field agent Charlie leads a frantic mission to outwit both governments and save his family when their secret is exposed.