Martin Odum is a one-time CIA field agent turned private detective in Brooklyn, struggling his way through a labyrinth of memories of past identities--"legends" in CIA parlance. Is he suffering from multiple personality disorder, brainwashing, or simply exhaustion? Is he a creation of the Legend Committee at the CIA's Langley headquarters? Can he trust the CIA psychiatrist? Or the Deputy Director of Operations? Or Stella Kastner a young Russian woman who engages him to find her brother-in-law so he can give her sister, an Orthodox Jew, a divorce, which under religious law requires the husband's presence? As Martin Odum redeploys his dormant tradecraft skills to solve Stella's case, he the globe battling mortal danger and psychological disorientation.