Back in 1993, Lachlan Kite is a young agent sent to a Russia no longer under communist control. His cover is that of a language teacher bur his real mission is to get a chemical weapons expert out of that country. When things to wrong he is alone in a hostile city being sought by an ex-KGB agent.
In present 2020, Kite is the director of Box 88 when he finds his name is on the 'Judas' list, a collection of names of enemies of Russia to be eliminated. Survival means finding the man who put his name on that list.