Sam McCready is an experienced British intelligence officer who became a legend during his lifetime. But when the Cold War ended, officials decided that people like him were no longer needed. A show trial is arranged, in which it becomes known about McCready's operations - for example, how he fought Irish terrorists, prevented a coup d'etat in the Caribbean islands, and how he managed to expose a KGB agent who got into the very heart of the CIA. However, the leaders of the Intelligence Service believed that the time of people like Sam had passed, and the world had become a much calmer place than before. Time has shown how cruelly they were wrong!