It is 1954, and the Cold War is being waged globally with even greater vigor between the West and Communism. In the sixth novel in the Jim Colling series, Seraphim and Bear, Colling finds himself on an unfamiliar front of the conflict, undertaking the rescue of a family member being held for ransom by Communist insurgents in Central America.Colling learns that the Western Hemisphere presents its own set of risks and challenges, but they are overshadowed when he is asked to locate a Person of Great Interest who has been imprisoned by the Soviet Union in East Germany.Employing his talent for audacious deception to make his way deep into the domain of Soviet State Security, he begins to realize that he might have overplayed his hand, and that this could be his final mission.