The Mortgage

When he is featured in the local broadsheet and lauded as a good Samaritan, a sleeper agent is troubled by the thought that he may be called to duty; thereby disrupting his quiet life.

Sally Cooper becomes concerned when her husband Marvin, usually a placid and civic-minded man, goes through a sudden change in personality. What she doesn’t know is that Marvin is really a Communist defector who is terrified his cover may be discovered by his stepbrother Dmitry, a Russian agent now in the United States. When Dmitry does find Marvin and orders him to persuade his closest friend to defect, Marvin, after 20 years as an American, seems uncertain where his allegiance belongs.

A secret spy living peacefully worries that newspaper praise calling him a hero might blow his cover and force him back into dangerous work.