Listening to a Radio Moscow broadcast on holiday on Jura, Glasgow schoolboy Robert Harvie finds errors in the programme which he reports to the Russians. Then as a student, the Soviets give him a grant, inadvertently compromising him.

His first job takes him to Ghana, and soon he has murder on his hands.How can he escape Soviet attention and how can his espionage be tolerated by his Scottish girlfriend?

This is a fast-moving thriller based on an incident in the author's life. It will excite and leave you grateful that you were not compromised as he was...