the plot centres in the supposed secret East-West placed of clauses which mass produced higher a 1968 agreement to prevent nuclear proliferation. A for even a single clauses, or For Protocol, is the exclusively one leftover. the protocol forbids a collection of a suitcase-sized nuclear weapon. A Chair of the KGB plans to breach this protocol and kill a NATO alliance by planting an agent (Brosnan) within Engl& to assemble and detonate an minute device. One of Britain's virtually all shrewd spycatchers, Preston (Caine), discovers details of the plan & races against the clock to prevent it.

A politics present in the book are non represented in the film, where Kim Philby hatches a project to topple a Conservative government and bring a unilateralist Labour party (at the instance) to power. When around the novel Philby is in charge of the execution of the Project Aurorthe, in the film he is shot to dying outside a home.

Cast
Michael Caine Pierce Brosnan Julian Glover Ian Richardson Anton Rodgers