A political assassination in St. Petersburg, Russia, on the eve of that country's most important presidential election triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy the delicate balance of world power unless Chicago businessman David Olen can act. Olen, must unravel the consequences of his past Machiavellian pacts and stay alive long enough to redeem himself. Protokol is the secret history of the Cold War, a provocative thriller that challenges every assumption of how the men controlling nations grasped power.