Neil Burnside faces a dilemma when the Director of Intelligence, Edward Tyler, goes off on a holiday to Malta. Under normal circumstances that wouldn't be a problem but when the local station learn that he is spending time with a woman, alarm bells go off. Protocols require that Tyler tell them if he is seeing someone and his apparent clandestine rendezvous with the woman leads them to believe the worse. When the CIA confirms that the woman is in fact a KGB agent, Burnside heads to Malta knowing that he may have to assassinate his colleague.
—garykmcd