1961 The height of the Cold War Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall a KGB assassin & his young wife flee for the West before the Iron Curtain comes down & traps them in the East forever This gripping story of real-life espionage & intrigue began when the Soviets invented a special weapon that killed without leaving a trace & put it in the hands of Bogdan Stashinsky It is a tale of exploding parcels fake identities forbidden love & a man who knew the truth about the USSR's most classified programme By the time Stashinsky had his day in court the whole world was watching