In the early 1950's the new T-54 tank was an unknown commodity to the West. The success of the T-34 of WW II was well known. NATO and Israel were afraid the Russian had come up with another world beater. The fifth book in the Steel series takes us on a mission behind the Iron Curtain in 1956 to learn its secrets. The main characters, Fletch, Carl and Rachel end up in the middle of the Hungarian rebellion in 1956, their mission to steal a T-54. Not an easy ask when the fighting in Budapest explodes around them.

All the books in the Steel series can be read as a stand alone, but there is a progression in time and development in the series.