It's 1999, and J. Robinson Blake is still dead. Spy, traitor, maybe both, Blake was crushed and buried in the rubble of the former Soviet Union. But if Jack Blake is dead, who is the mysterious stranger who has come back to America? Ghost, opportunist, or assasin, the new Jack Blake is a man with a hunger for vengance and an improbable secret that threatens to turn the death of the Cold War into the birth of a World War.