1940: the Nazis are at the height of their power - France is occupied, Britian is under threat of invasion, America is neutral, and Russia has an uneasy alliance with Germany. Stephen Metcalfe, the younger son of a prominent American Stephen Metcalfe is a well-known man-about-town in occupied Paris. Hes also a minor asset in the U.S.s secret intelligence forces in Europe 1940: the Nazis are at the height of their power - France is occupied, Britian is under threat of invasion, America is neutral, and Russia has an uneasy alliance with Germany. Stephen Metcalfe, the younger son of a prominent American Stephen Metcalfe is a well-known man-about-town in occupied Paris. Hes also a minor asset in the U.S.s secret intelligence forces in Europe. Now he must travel to wartime Moscow to find, and possibly betray, a former love... 1991: the Communist empire is on the verge of oblivion. President Gorbachev is a virtual prisoner, and a coup is being planned by a powerful new cabel. Stephen Metcalfe, now a retired Ambassador, must return to Moscow and finally reveal a secret that has haunted him since the fall of Berlin...a secret that might just avert global cataclysm.