It is a time of political unrest in Great Britain. And behind the Iron Curtain and insidious plot is being hatched, a plan so incendiary that even the KGB is ignorant of its existence Aurora, the sinister brainchild secretary of the Soviet Union's Communist Party and master spy Kim Philby. The wheels are in motion, the pawns are in place and the couontdown has begun toward and 'accident' that could change the face of British politics forever and trigger the collapse of the Western alliance. Only British agent John Preston stands any chance of breaching the conspiracy. Through plot and counterplot, from bloody back streets to polished halls of power both East and West, his desperate investigation is relentlessly blocked by deceit, treachery, and the most deadly enemy of all time.