Sam McCready is The Deceiver, one of the Secret Intelligence Service's most
unorthodox and most valued operatives, a legend in his own time. The end of the
cold war has, however, strengthened the hand of the Whitehall mandarins, to whom
he seems about as controllable as Genhis Khan, so Sam is to have his fate
decided at a special hearing.As part of the proceedings, four of Sam's key
operations are reviewed: a clandestine mission into East Germany in 1985 to
contact the top Russian spy General Pankratin; the second involving a KGB
colonel who wants to defect - but is he genuine? An audacious Qaddafi-inspired
plot to