A COLD WAR THRILLER. A clever plot by the Soviets to disrupt the trade unions and infiltrate the civil service with the aim of influencing government policies. They plan to install a high ranking communist into position within the Foreign Office that will allow them access to government strategy and policy making. Polly Spencer, newly arrived as a civil servant stumbles on this plot and informs her ward Daniel Bottomley. He had been approached by a concerned trade unionist about the continuing unrest in the docks and the attempts by communist agitators to call a national strike and was...

It is 1962 and the height of the Cold war tensions between East and West, when a well planned Soviet conspiracy is uncovered by Polly Bottomley an MP and an expert in Soviet Affairs. Initiated by the actions of the European Nations, a retaliatory course set by Russia with the aim to instigate a global conflict seems all but inevitable - only nobody knows what form this counter attack will take. Have the Europeans give them the perfect excuse to initiate a nuclear strike against the U.S. while seemingly protecting themselves from the possibility of future European retaliation in the process....