For forty years Western intelligence agents have known a terrible secret: the Russians have a mole - code-named Talbot - inside the CIA. At first Talbot is suspected of killing European agents. Then a street-smart ex-cop uncovers a storm of espionage and murder on the streets of New York, while in a Long Island suburb a civic demonstration against the Russian mission masks a desperate duel of nerves and wits. Engineered by Talbot, a shadow world of suspicion and deceit is spilling onto the streets - leading to a new Soviet weapon and a first-strike war plan threatening the foundations of American government. For the U.S., time is running out. For Talbot, the time is now.
"HARD TO PUT DOWN...Loaded with spies, sex, suspense, and enough shooting to make the goings-on at the O.K. Corral look like a water-pistol fight."
-Newsday
"Will keep the reader's adrenaline flowing full blast from beginning to end. . . .[DeMille] has taken an imaginative and complicated plot and very skillfully made it sound plausible - and chilling."
-Richmond Times-Dispatch
"A story in the grand tradition of action romance. . . .Mr. DeMille is the established master of the ticking-bomb story. . . .At the end the reader will be drained - perhaps still frightened."
