Psar wanted to go home. A White Russian, living in Paris, he is not the most obvious immigrant to the Mother Country. But there is a way - if Psar will only collude with the KGB in a dazzling plot to confound both the dissident movement and Western liberals alike. Psar must agree, and so begins a nightmare of manipulation and obscure but increasing danger, as the steely web of the KGB's all-pervasive disinformation network is revealed in its ruthless complexity. Seldom has the seamy and dangerous world of espionage been so relentlessly explored as in this brilliant and disturbing award winning novel.