In Jan 1963, British journalist Leo Cauffield all of a sudden disappear from his place in Bayrut. His married woman wisecrack know that he was work part-time for British intelligence, but was not fix to be state by the British embassy that they surmise he has defect to Communist Soviet Union. As his married woman put together the piece of the cryptic saber saw of the past times, track her passionate human relationship with her hubby and his history as former caput of MI6’s counter-espionage subdivision, her grim hunt for the truth take her to Greater London, New House of York and eventually capital of the Russian Federation.