I, Spry

With a nuclear arms race set to escalate the cold war, Prime Minister Menzies appoints Colonel Charles Spry to take charge of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, ASIO. Spry's officers investigate Australians spying for the Soviets and infiltrate Communist Party branches with undercover agents.

The sensational 1954 defections of Soviet Embassy officials, Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov, deliver Spry a great intelligence victory. But when a former ASIO officer appears in surveillance photographs and major counter-espionage cases begin to fail, Spry soon finds himself in a 'wilderness of mirrors'. Security threats appear to be everywhere – from the highest office in the land to within ASIO itself.