This is the story of the abrupt end to an ambassador's impeccable thirty-year career, following an extraordinary refusal to renew his security clearance, intertwined with a two-part criminal probe. The operation to bring about his downfall was planned and executed thoroughly. As one set of accusations were dismissed, they were followed by a second, then a third, like a Hydra’s head - cut one off, two more would emerge. The everyday life of a diplomat is mixed unexpectedly with elements of a crime novel. Over a two-year period, Ambassador Clyde Kull attempts to get justice. As he recalls these recent events, he also lifts the veil on the everyday life of a diplomat and the international world of diplomacy. Nonetheless, questions remain: what was the motivation to bring him down? In whose interest was it done? And who was the mastermind behind it all?