There has always been a need in the spy game for covert operations outside the realm of legality. The left hand can't know what the right hand is doing. Austin Clay is that right hand. His team consists of only his trusted handler and himself. Clay is sent to track down a missing American operative who was captured outside of Moscow, in the Russian countryside. He soon discovers that the missing officer is only the beginning of the mission, and finds himself protecitng a desperate woman who believes a mole has penetrated the top levels of the U.S. government.