A chance encounter propels Sam Ludovic, a New York jazz pianist and blogger on "conspiracies, covert ops and cover-ups", on the trail of a Soviet agent who met Lee Harvey Oswald a few months before the assassination of John F Kennedy. But as his odyssey takes him to Russia, the mideast and Europe, Ludovic uncovers further layers of mystery that have nothing to do with Dallas and the events of November 22nd, 1963. And when the intelligence agencies of the US, Russia and Israel start to take an interest in the old secrets he is uncovering, he soon wishes that he'd stuck to playing the piano...