Bond is on a deadly mission that he must carry out alongside his adversaries from the United States, the Soviet Union, and Israel in the desolate Arctic wastelands of Lapland. But if resurgent fascism is the common enemy, who should one truly fear? Can Bond trust that Smersh will resist the temptation to take revenge on him? Is the lively American or the sensual Israeli acting as a double agent? Are the Finns merely using Bond to free their barely existent national independence from the grip of the KGB? Bond has never encountered such an infuriatingly treacherous group of collaborators.