When high school senior Chelsea Anderson ask her grandmother what it was like to live during the Cold War, she gets an answer that she could never have expected. Filled with betrayal, political intrigue, plot and counterplot, the tale tells the story of a young woman who leaves her comfortable life to enter the world of international intrigue in an effort to find and save the man who had left her years before. In a mad race across Europe, with bodies dropping around her, she wonders if she will be the next to die.