In 1946, genius linguist and codebreaker Meredith Gardner discovered
that the KGB was running an extensive network of strategically placed
spies inside the United States. Over the course of the next decade, he
and young FBI supervisor Bob Lampshere worked together on Venona, a
top-secret mission to uncover the Soviet agents and protect the Holy
Grail of Cold War espionage - the atomic bomb. Opposites in nearly every
way, Lampshere and Gardner relentlessly followed a trail of clues that
helped them identify and take down the Soviet agents one by one,
including Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. They uncovered atom spy Klaus
Fuchs in the UK. But at the centre of this spy ring, seemingly beyond
the American agents' grasp, was the mysterious master spy who pulled the
strings of the KGB's extensive campaign. Lampshere and Gardner began to
suspect that a mole buried deep in the American intelligence community
was feeding Moscow Centre information on Venona. They raced to unmask
the traitor and prevent the Soviets from fulfilling Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev's threat: 'We shall bury you!' A breathtaking chapter
of history and a page-turning mystery that plays out against the tense,
life-and-death gamesmanship of the Cold War, this twisting thriller
begins at the end of World War II and leads all the way to the execution
of the Rosenbergs - a result that haunted both Gardner and Lampshere.
