The Touch Of Treason

Description for THE TOUCH OF TREASON by Sol Stein:

AMERICA'S TOP SOVIET ADVISOR HAD BEEN MURDERED

Martin Fuller was dead.  The leading American authority on Soviet operations and political conduct, he was working for the U.S. government---and had been provided with security and protection while he finished the assignment.

But the kerosene fire that killed him was no accident.

The name of the game is treason.  A game where no man knows his betrayer.  Where justice kneels down to power.  Where knowledge is the worst crime and the life of a single citizen is a small price to pay.

The KGB was implicated in the murder.  A college student was accused.  And above all else, the CIA wanted the boy acquitted---at any price...