Cold Warrior is the story of Kasia Kerenski, a street mime who is "discovered" to work as a Hollywood actress. Coerced into becoming a double agent for the KGB and CIA, she is caught between two opposing international clandestine plots, one to discover a mole in the CIA and an attempt by the KGB to foment regime change through a revolution in Pinochet's Chile. Kasia struggles against her handlers and others out to exploit her artificially created celebrity status. Her marriage to film director, Michael Sloan, takes her to a production in South America that is not what it appears to be.

At turns a romance and an espionage thriller, her layered story explores the roles and cultural images of women and strikes at the heart of corporate financial corruption, global competition, and ruthless cold war political intrigue