This fast-paced spy novel features Winston Spenser, the one-legged ex-schoolteacher tricked by circumstances and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service into acting as "keeper" for Igor Malenov, a chess-crazed Russian KGB defector. Set mainly in Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick, A SPY IN MY HOUSE is also a drama of another kind of loyalty when Spenser and Malenov compete for the affections of Evey -- dupe or betrayer? -- a competition which does not end with the final action-packed scene at a Bay of Fundy wharf.