The book 'The Red Square'consist of a novelette plus thirteen short stories and the title above is thenovelette title. The novelette's plot relates the story of an American secretagent in Moscow. He is sent to get in touch with certain locals and organize anet, that's his mission and that's how he was briefed back home. After severaldays he realizes that he was betrayed, while the Russian SVR puts a siege on himand tries to persuade him to defect.