EX DIPLOMAT/SPY, JAKE, FRAMED FOR MURDER ESCAPES FROM RUSSIA, BUT RETURNS RISKING HIS LIFE TO SAVE HIS LOVER, TANYA, FROM THE CLUTCHES OF HIS KGB NEMESIS, BORIS. During the Cold War, Jake Kilgour, a married diplomat and spy, meets Tanya, an Intourist guide in a Novgorod restaurant where she asks him to dance. He is tempted, but refuses, because he believes it is a KGB trap. Continually drawn back to her, Jake is confused about her intentions as he is drawn deeper and deeper into the clutches of Boris a brutal KGB major, who hates Jake and lusts after Tanya. There can be only one winner out of the two suitors vying for her favours in their deadly struggle through the years from communism to capitalism. The novel is embedded in the cultural background of Russia and its tragedies. There are many twists, turns, deaths, betrayals, and despair before the unforeseen ending.