When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency's covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book and sends other agents after him, initiating a frenetic game of cat and mouse that spans the globe.

Walter Matthau
as Miles Kendig

Glenda Jackson
as Isobel

Sam Waterston
as Jack Cutter

Ned Beatty
as Myerson

Herbert Lom
as Yaskov

David Matthau
as Ross

George Baker
as Westlake

Ivor Roberts
as Ludlum

Lucy Saroyan
as Carla

Severn Darden
as Maddox
John Chard
A simply delightful little film. After growing tired of the job, CIA agent Miles Kendig decides to get out of the business once and for all. Fearing that his peace, and maybe his life, could be threatened by the organisation, he tells them that unless he is left alone he will spill the beans on a...