It is M's funeral, and one man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who is accused of M's murder—James Bond. Behind the Iron Curtain, a group of former Smersh agents want to use the British spy in an operation that will change the balance of world power. In Anthony Horowitz's convincing continuation of Ian Fleming's classic series, Bond is smuggled into the lion's den—but whose orders is he following, and will he obey them when the moment of truth arrives?