Plot Summary:Leo Cauffield, chief of British counterespionage, fails by a whisker to arrest two fellow Cambridge-graduated spies who just manage to defect to Moscow, resigns and becomes a journalist. In Beirut, home of his Islam-converted father, Leo seduces Sally Tyler to divorce her husband for him. Their happiness with children from both marriages is cut short a few years later, when Leo suddenly disappears; Sally learns soon he's suspected of having defected to Moscow too, which she refuses to believe, but will be forced to while Western secret services want Leo back or dead.
故事介绍对抗贝鲁特的军事活动的背景。埃莉诺,一个美国战争通讯记者,遇见Kim,来自英国的她同事。一个会议让她的生活彻底改变:从此埃莉诺被爱压倒。然而埃莉诺深爱的男人,是被中央情报局追捕的苏联间谍,这样她的爱和忠贞要遭受严格的测试。