How many have to die to save one man? Each night a small jet leaves Moscow heading for a lonely outpost in the frozen Soviet North. It takes no passengers and brings none back. Intelligence shows this is neither a cargo flight nor a military flight. The British believe it's an escape route for the beleaguered General Secretary, who will use it, just moments before he's toppled from power. But to do so he must first pass through the deadly Saviour's Gate in the Kremlin itself... “It is a lucid, intelligent and utterly absorbing novel about international intrigue... so brilliantly perceptive that I often caught myself holding my breath” - Daily Mail “Absorbing, tense, and all too credible, this is all a prophetic thriller should be” - Observer