High Caliber Talent is the story of two friends, CIA intelligence analyst Jack McGill, and Anton Rykov, the KGB’s top spy in the United States. Downsized out of their jobs at the end of the Cold War, Jack and Anton open McGill Associates, a consulting and executive recruiting company, which serves as a front for the real business they’re in: finding freelance espionage work for other unemployed intelligence operatives. When business begins to boom, not everyone is happy for McGill Associates.
Particularly unhappy is Steve Saugerties, a former colleague of Jack’s and now a high-ranking official at CIA who, operating without any official sanction, has some sinister plans of his own for McGill Associates’ private espionage operations. And, if Jack and Anton aren’t amenable to his proposal of a business partnership, then Steve’s future plans for McGill Associates don’t necessarily include Jack and Anton.
