Includes bibliographical references and index.

Flight to Rio -- The city of light -- From the Baltic to the Land of Liberty -- The KGB beckons -- KGB Directorate "S," Illegals Department -- Dispatched to Canada -- Becoming established in the Canadian shield -- Rocky Mountains and love in the prairies -- A change of Hart -- Gideon and Operation Keystone -- Trouble in paradise -- Brik's advancement to active espionage -- Shades of Gouzenko -- For the sake of a smoked meat sandwich -- The Mountie who became Long Knife -- A life in transition -- Establishing the framework for treason -- Betrayal -- Reluctant guest of Lubyanka -- The treachery continues -- Peeling back the onion of deceit -- Back in the game -- All appears lost -- Merry-go-round of clandestine meetings -- British SIS in Moscow -- Morrison's world unravels -- Yevgeni Brik's final days -- The end of the road -- Exposed by the media -- An astounding revelation -- The devil is in the details -- Into the breach -- The lost years -- Strange bedfellows -- Temnikovskiy Department of Camps -- Time served -- Perestroika, Glasnost, and the Soviet railway system -- Vilnius, Lithuania -- Epilogue.

A look at KGB agent Yevgeni Vladimirovich Brik and RCMP officer James Douglas Finley Morrison and their involvement in the KGB's Cold War espionage operations in Canada.