Every job has its office politics, but when you're a spy in service to yourqueen and your country, the politics in play take on a much larger scale. Whenthe chief of S.I.S. is forced into retirement by a stroke, Head of OperationsPaul Crocker is forced to play a new game in order to keep his good standing andhis job. But are agents Tara Chace and Tom Wallace prepared to be Crocker'spawns in this new match? And how will it be for Poole, the new minder who has tostep over two dead bodies in order to take his post?