How can any spy, even a retired one, ignore a dead drop? Oboroten and ex-KGB operative Yuri Gregorov takes the bait and uncovers a flash drive filled with incomprehensible numbers, diagrams, and plans that someone might pay a lot for - or kill for. How much is information worth these days? Is it worth jeopardizing Yuri's tidy new life? Is it worth a carved-up corpse, dark magic, and running from the FBI, the SVR, and his past?