Amanda Cole is a brilliant young CIA officer following in the footsteps of her father, who was a spy during the Cold War. It takes grit to succeed in this male-dominated world – but one hot summer day, when a Russian defector walks into her post, Amanda is given the ultimate chance to prove herself.

The defector warns of the imminent assassination of a US senator. Though Amanda takes the warning seriously, her superiors don’t. Twenty-four hours later, the senator is dead. And the assassination is just the beginning.

Teaming up with Kath Frost, a fearless older woman and legendary spy, Amanda races from Rome to London, from St Petersburg to Helsinki, unravelling the international conspiracy. But as she gets closer and closer to the truth, questions haunt her. Why was her father’s name written down in the senator’s notes? What does Charlie Cole really know about the Kremlin plot?