Publisher's Synopsis
It is a sweltering July in the mid-1970s, and for Will Flemyng, foreign office minister, the temperature is rising with each passing hour. A mysterious death has exposed secret passions in government, bringing on a political crisis that will draw him into a familiar world of danger and deceit. For Flemyng has a past. He was trained as a spy for a life behind enemy lines in the Cold War and now he is compelled to go back. In the course of one long weekend he has to question all his loyalties - to his friends, his rivals and to his two brothers.
