Early one morning in West Berlin, a nervous courier delivers the handwritten manuscript of a dissident Russian novel to agent Paul Christopher; minutes later the couriers spine is snapped by an impact with a passing limousine. Meanwhile in Rome, Christophers wife Cathy takes a lover in an attempt to stir her husbands stoicism. These two seemingly discrete events set in motion a spiral of operational and personal intrigue that leads Christopher from Europe to Africa, as he secretly arranges the publication of a book that could bring the Soviet Union to its knees and races to identify the leak that compromised his messenger and possibly the entire mission.
- ISBN10 0449235491
- ISBN13 9780449235492
- Publish Date 12 May 1978 (first published 1 January 1977)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Fawcett Books
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Language English