Captain Dominika Egorova of the Russian Intelligence Service has returned from the West to Moscow. She despises the men she serves, the oligarchs, and crooks, and thugs of Putin's Russia. What no one knows is that Dominika is working for the CIA as Washington's most sensitive penetration of the Kremlin.

PARIS
A young woman is cornered on a deserted boulevard.
Moments later she walks away, leaving her assailant for dead.

ATHENS
An elderly man walks into the American embassy with a story to tell.

MOSCOW
The most unlikely of traitors is uncovered by the most dangerous of men.

WASHINGTON
A brilliant, unorthodox CIA agent must single-handedly connect the dots to stop an intricate house of cards from toppling in a cold war that's taken a terrifying new twist.