content: The point is about who is the good guy and who is the bad? The Soviet success with atomic secrets started the cold war spy wars.In Mad Magazine there is spy versus spy; one wearing white and the other wearing black: in this caseit appears both are wearing gray.This plot is much better than the other novels I've read by this author ( and they were very good).Twist within turn within twist and the ultimate victim is an innocent!We are given a graphic picture of the cold war as an acultural waste land without conscience or ethics.