When Arthur Casey Jarvis marches into the Soviet Embassy in Washington offering his services, the KGB don't realize what an asset he is. Yuri Volkov is appointed as Jarvis's controller and despises the weak man before him. Larry Gets is the senior CIA official who is tasked with finding the traitor in their midst.

So begins a cat-and mouse game of danger and deception. And it's becoming clear that in order to win the game, Getz will have to bend the rules more than a little...