James Cronley’s first successful mission for the new Central Intelligence Directorate has drawn all kinds of attention some welcome some not including from the Soviets his own Pentagon and a seething J. Edgar Hoover. Now complications have sprung up all over including a surprising alliance between the Germans and of all things the Mossad; and an unplanned meeting with an undercover agent against the Soviets known only as Seven K.. Cronley knows that if just one thing goes wrong he’s likely to get thrown to the wolves. And he thinks he hears them howling now.