Hot peace / Cold War, the early 60's. The Russians threaten president John F. Kennedy with the icy promise' we will bury you.' A formula for flames. A young man raised in the simplicity of a rural Oregon town seeks his technical vocation in the U.S. Navy. He is selected for special training and assigned within the Navy's intelligence community. Bizarre events sweep him into a vortex of espionage and intrigue, teeming with military and personal conflict. Powerful game-masters in this Machiavellian environment manipulate him to execute their warped brand of patriotism. The twisted paths he is forced to traverse propel him toward implosion in a war between conscience and duty. To survive, he must fight for his life and his sanity in the maelstrom of a spystorm.