In Moscow the suicide of a powerful Washington facilitator and the assassination of a Russian banking official blows the cover of a CIA spy inside the Kremlin. Her exposure reveals a sinister international conspiracy orchestrated by the U.S. and Russia.
The blow up snares Berlin-based spec-ops officer Claire Hayden in a treacherous mission to infiltrate Belarus where the spy, Valentina Surkova, great-granddaughter of White Russians massacred by the Bolsheviks, has fled from her pursuers who will do anything to keep their secrets. Fighting to prevent Valentina's capture, Hayden, hardened veteran of clandestine operations, survives a double-cross meant to eliminate anyone with knowledge of the conspiracy.
Dogged by American and Russian assassins, Hayden vows to unmask the conspirators and destroy her would-be killers. Fearless, undaunted by betrayal and murder, she tracks them down across Berlin from its glittering high-rises to its Nazi-era network of subterranean bunkers. Yet when face-to-face with her enemies Hayden is forced to confront the terrible price she's paid for a life haunted by lies, blood, and death.