The book 'The Red Square' consist of a novelette plus thirteen short stories and the title above is the novelette title. The novelette's plot relates the story of an American secret agent in Moscow. He is sent to get in touch with certain locals and organize a net, that's his mission and that's how he was briefed back home. After several days he realizes that he was betrayed, while the Russian SVR puts a siege on him and tries to persuade him to defect.