Sam McCready is the deceiver, one of the secret intelligence service must unorthodox and most value operatos, a legend in his own time. The end of the Cold War has, however, strengthen the hand of the White Hall mandarins, to whom he seems about as comfortable or controllable as Genghis Khan, so Sam is to have his feet decided at a special here. 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, the second involving a KGB Colonel who wants to defect, but is he genuine? In audacious quad of inspired plot to ship arms for the ira, in the fourth one McCready presided over the aftermath of a political murder and may him in the caribbean.