Every job has its office politics, but when you're a spy in service to your queen and your country, the politics in play take on a much larger scale. When the chief of SIS is forced into retirement, Paul Crocker is forced to play a new game in order to keep his good standing and his job. But are agents Chace and Wallace prepared to be Crocker's pawns in this new match? And how will it be for Poole, the new Minder who has to step over two dead bodies in order to take his post?