Traveling behind the Iron Curtain, James Bond must convince the Russians, including a beautiful Soviet psychiatric analyst, that he is a double agent to infiltrate a group planning a major act of terrorism, which, if successful, will destabilize relations between the East and West. Only one person is missing from M's funeral: James Bond, the man who pulled the trigger. Behind the Iron Curtain, former SMERSH agents want to use Bond in an operation that will change the balance of world power. On a mission where treachery is all around, not even Bond knows what has happened to the man he used to be. -- adapted from jacket

Based on characters created by Ian Fleming. "First published in the United Kingdom in 2022 by Jonathan Cape"--Title page verso. Goodreads lists this title as #49 in the "extended" James Bond series. The list is in order by publication date, and does not follow a chronological sequence for story lines.