Late spring, 1971. Dix Apodaca, a U.S. Air Force sergeant back in Berlin after a tour in Viet Nam, gets sucked into the antiwar movement - and a KGB deception operation. Martina Böhm, a German student and a poster girl for the Revolution, looks like a potential recruit for the Soviet spy service, and Dix suspects she’d be easily led. But the Russians are playing a double game, and Dix and Martina are both disposable assets. Uneasy with each other, and with the parts they’ve been asked to play, the two of them are caught in a trap of their own making - physical desire, duty, idealism, hope. Neither of them are any match in tradecraft for the canny and careful Major Petrokhin, KGB’s troubleshooter, sent from Moscow with the specific brief to lure a moth to the flame. Martina Böhm presents a target of opportunity, and Dix Apodaca an inconvenience.
Genre: Thriller
Genre: Thriller
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