Roger Ingram was engaged in a highly delicate mission of importance to both SIS and NATO intelligence when he was found drowned off the coast of Corfu. Lucas Grant was sent to investigate. What had really happened? Had a vital KGB operation been thwarted, or not? 

Just two kilometers away, across the sea, lies Albania: hostile to Russia and NATO, seething with discontent, ruthlessly suppressed, a tiny, impoverished state jealously guarding what could, for the Kremlin, be a mouth-watering prize -- a naval base on the Adriatic.