Private investigator Joe Copp's old LAPD partner Tom Chase is in trouble with the FBI, and Copp is not one to leave a buddy hanging in the wind. Set during the Reagan-era Cold War arms race, Copp finds himself deeply entangled a cloak-and-dagger intrigue, where money is measured by the trillions, beautiful women are abundant and welcoming, and death is right around the corner.

Working as the chief of security for a major defense contractor, Chase is being tailed by the FBI. Two up-and-coming executives of the company end up dead, and the plot thickens as Chase is taken in for espionage. Copp is in deep this time, smack-dab in the middle of the murky world surrounding lucrative defense contracts, where highly placed Pentagon officials, KGB agents, and the feds all wind up playing a high-stakes game of Russian roulette.

Pendleton's third novel in the Copp series takes literary tension and excitement to a new high.