Author John Sager's alter ego Robert Oxner—installed for the second time as CIA's Chief of Station in Moscow—finds himself and his wife dealing with a most-unusual adversary: Several of Moscow's oligarchs, men who have more money than they know what to do with and aren't afraid to use their wealth to buy favors from Russia's limited treasury. Eventually, these men decide to emigrate to the United States and exchange their rubles for zillions of American dollars.