This book provides a vivid and persuasive account of the Cold War in Australia where the author scrutinises the activity of the controversial journalist Wilfred Birchett, the defection of the Petrov is a 1954 and the battles that raged between Menzies and Evatt. this book is also a personal history, with the author telling of his conversion to anti-Communism and explaining the moral imperatives behind the beliefs that he formed