In this follow-up to "Once a Spy," Charlie and Drummond Clark are hiding out in Switzerland and trying to retrieve Drummond's memory. When NSA operative Alice Rutherford, with whom Charlie has fallen in love, is kidnapped, the Clarks must dodge a formidable CIA case officer and his team to get her back.

When one of his ex-lovers is murdered before she can reveal government secrets, hard-hitting journalist Russ Thornton goes on the run from a killer who is after the recording device implanted in his head.