Publisher's Synopsis
This whole thing got started on the Thanksgiving weekend of 1976. A Division RCMP Security Service ran a weekend long operation that actually nabbed several Soviets at work. It began a process of unmasking infamous "Sasha", a person who is reported to be within all western intelligence operations according to James Angleton, the then head of CIA counter intelligence.As Book Four opens, Hodge is back in Europe for second time within a month's time. Supposedly on annual leave. In actual fact, he was tasked with a to-do-list by the senior authorities in A Div's B-ops Security Service.Tao Feng Gang (believed to have defected into the Canadian Secr) is or was the man responsible for and in charge of, the Intelligence gathering operations for the PRC in Canada.Colonial Lam Cho Bing is/was his number two, but because Gang had disappeared Lam is now last man standing at the PCR's embassy in Ottawa as being second secretary to Tao Feng Gang. It has befallen him to be scape-goat and he knew it.Oh yes, what Hodge does not know yet, but what the reader does know that is that his lady, Danielle, has just discovered that she is pregnant and he is the father. Blanche Humphrey, mistress to the deputy director of MI-6, is an important cog in the inner workings of British Security Services (MI-5), as communications director.She is Busy being suspected by people within her branch that she in fact may be the mole they have been hunting for. She sets circumstances, so that Hardcastle, the man who suspects her is removed from the situation for the time being ... Hodge et al are still dodge ball with both the Chinese and the Soviets and have attempted to go to ground in his very first detachment posting.
