For over a decade, the Soviet and American space programs struggled to gain supremacy over the heavens. With the Soviets adding triumph after triumph—the first satellite in orbit, the first man in space—in the end, they declared victory in by landing a cosmonaut on the Moon, declaring victory in the Space Race and perhaps the Cold War itself.
In the wake of this devastating blow, the American investigative journalist Jack Schechter gets swept up in the intrigue of two rocket scientists communicating through the Iron Curtain, a Soviet diplomat’s cat and mouse game, and the lies that hold everything together.