Recovering in a Paris hospital after a car bomb detonates outside the Paris Opera House is internationally famous French orchestra conductor Pierre Sharitine, who has a secret career as head of operations of the multinational intelligence agency C8. He reflects on his four-decade career as a top assassin and an operative. Boris Tarloff has been Pierre's nemesis for decades in the KGB and, more recently, the FSB.


Who will survive the inevitable final confrontation?