Moscow, 1961: With the launch of Sputnik, the Soviet Union's international prestige is at an all-time high. And the most notorious of the defectors to the Soviet Union, former CIA agent Frank Weeks, is about to publish his memoirs. He has asked his brother Simon, a publisher in New York, to come to Moscow to edit the manuscript. It's a reunion Simon both dreads and longs for. But what he discovers in Moscow is far more shocking than he ever imagined ... The new thriller from the author of "Leaving Berlin".