Balance of Fear

This fast-moving, adrenalin-fueled thriller from the author of Traitor's Gait"captures Cold War tension at its highest" (Tom Kasey, author of Cold Kill).
Amidst the deepest chills of the Cold War, the director of MI5's Special Security (Operations) Section is a worried man. In his office, hidden in the depths of an innocuous-looking building in London, reports from his man in Leningrad, and others, are leading him to one, inescapable, conclusion. The Americans are developing an anti-ballistic missile program. And the Russians are out to destroy it.
The Russians are planning to hijack an American ship, but it's not clear yet which ship. And now the SS(O)S director's man in Leningrad is dead.
Then, a US transport ship vanishes between Dover and Hamburg, and it seems that the director's worst fears are coming true. It is time to call in his best secret service operatives. Between them, agents James Dingle...