Agent or traitor? Killer or victim? Kurte Menke is a refugee from the East ... or is he?

Once they had been friends - long ago in Berlin before the wall was built. Now, for fifteen years, their friendship has totalled a card at Christmas. But, a late-night phone call brings Charles Ashmore, a respectable London solicitor, and Kurte Menke, an East German defector, together again.

Is it just chance that Kurt''s reappearance coincides with the trial of an English spy - a trial that Charles is defending? And who sends the mysterious attackers to Charles''s cottage? Is it the Germans, the British, or somebody else?

Agent or traitor? Killer or victim? Kurte Menke is a refugee from the East ... or is he?

Once they had been friends - long ago in Berlin before the wall was built. Now, for fifteen years, their friendship has totalled a card at Christmas. But, a late-night phone call brings Charles Ashmore, a respectable London solicitor, and Kurte Menke, an East German defector, together again.

Is it just chance that Kurt''s reappearance coincides with the trial of an English spy - a trial that Charles is defending? And who sends the mysterious attackers to Charles''s cottage? Is it the Germans, the British, or somebody else?