IT STARTED AS A SIMPLE SPY HUNT.IT BECAME A DESPERATE BATTLE TO SAVE THE WEST.For forty years Western intelligence agents have known a terrible secret theRussia... » 

IT STARTED AS A SIMPLE SPY HUNT.IT BECAME A DESPERATE BATTLE TO SAVE THE WEST.For forty years Western intelligence agents have known a terrible secret theRussians have a mole codenamed Talbot inside the CIA. At first Talbot issuspected of killing European agents. Then a streetsmart excop uncovers astorm of espionage and murder on the streets of New York while in a LongIsland suburb a civic demonstration against the Russian mission masks adesperate duel of nerves and wits.Engineered by Talbot a shadow world of suspicion and deceit is spilling ontothe streets leading to a new Soviet weapon and a firststrike war planthreatening the foundations of American government.For the U.S. time is running out. For Talbot the time is now. «