Jas Gill, the astronomer son of a British Army officer, had every reason to hate the Russian KGB after what they had done to him as a young man. But after the fall of Communism he returned East, criss-crossing Eastern Europe and Russia, from Riga to Bulgaria, and Warsaw to Siberia. Yet unknown to him his tormentor Dima was still there, and had chosen him again for a dangerous mission. Somehow the Leshii, spirits of the Russian forest, held the secret...