Charlie Stone is a brilliant analyst for the CIA—young,
wealthy, a maverick, an avid mountain climber. He has made
an illustrious reputation for predicting the unpredictable
ways of the Kremlin, even now, after the Cold War, when
everything seems to have changed. He's summoned urgently to
read the transcript of a tape recording smuggled out of the
Soviet Union by one of the few remaining moles. His expert
assessment—not only is there an ominous coup in the making,
a power struggle that will make glasnost a thing of the
past—but he senses that the conspiracy may well be linked to
an old family mystery: why his father, a prominent Harvard
historian, was imprisoned during the McCarthy era.
Suddenly, Stone's investigation becomes deeply personal. He
finds himself delving into a conspiracy whose roots lie in
the first days of the Cold War. Stone's search leads him to
the private archives of his own godfather, the legendary
Winthrop Lehman, a man who was the confidant of FDR and
Truman, and once, secretly, the confidant to Lenin himself.
At once, Stone is plunged into a nightmare of violence and
paranoia. Framed for brutal murder, Stone finds himself in a
cat-and-mouse pursuit across the United States, Europe, and
finally, the Soviet Union, which, for the first time in
history, has been seized by an unnerving wave of terrorism.
Within the Kremlin, a secret group that calls itself the
Moscow Club—outraged by Moscow's loosening grip on world
power—is laying groundwork for an ingenious, violent coup
d'état, led by one rogue member of Gorbachev's Politburo,
which will topple the Kremlin leadership from within—and
change the world order forever.
As the days, and finally hours, tick by, Stone must elude
his pursuers long enough to find an elusive woman who holds
a power she does not know she has—if she is indeed alive.
She alone may be the key not only to the identity of the one
man who seeks the reins of power—but to a final, amazing
mystery almost as old as the Soviet Union itself.
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