The bestselling author of Six Days of the Condor returns with a chilling, acclaimed novel of espionage. Jud Stuart is one of the CIA's best operatives. But now, with the thawing of the Cold War, Stuart's out in the cold with his ghosts and his government's secrets--and someone has decided it's his time to die . . . "A post-Glasnost white-knuckler".--San Francisco Chronronicle.