Freddie Makin is a spy for hire. For a year he's been watching Jiang Cheng, an academic whose life seems suspiciously normal. To Freddie, it's just a job; he never asks who's paying him or why, until the day someone is sent to kill him and suddenly the watcher becomes the watched. On the run from whoever wants him dead, Freddie knows he must have seen something incriminating.The only trouble is he has no idea what. Is the CIA behind all this or does it go higher than that? Have his trackers uncovered his murky past? As he's forced into a lethal dance across Vienna, Freddie knows one thing for sure; his only hope for survival is keeping the truth from the other side and making sure the secrets from his past stay hidden.