Fielding, reeling from the death of Severine, knows he has more to do; he must avenge Severine's death; he unmasks the traitor and all the Berlin mysteries are explained.
Fielding feels threatened and drops out of sight; three urgent questions preoccupy him, including the Beirut photograph and the date of Sunday, Aug. 13.
Fielding's Berlin life is unraveling; he decides to go rogue and provoke the Russians into retaliating; at the same time he is now being blackmailed over his affair with Severine.
The fatal fiasco of the Beethoven defection has consequences; Fielding is tasked with finding and eliminating the traitor; Fielding begins to recruit his own private army.
Berlin, 1961: Fielding Scott, a disgraced MI6 agent, is given a chance to rehabilitate. He is supposed to organize the defection of an East German scientist who has made an explosive discovery. The operation fails. There must be a mole within the Allied secret services. Scott goes on a dangerous search for the traitor.