A chance encounter propels Sam Ludovic, a New York jazz pianist and blogger on "conspiracies, covert ops and cover-ups", into an investigation of a dead Soviet agent once codenamed HUNTINGDOG: a man who might have been involved in planning and directing some of the most infamous assassination and terror plots ever hatched. But when the intelligence agencies of the US, Russia and Israel start to take an interest in the old secrets he is uncovering, Ludovic soon wishes that he'd stuck to playing the piano...