Shinji Ikari thought being conscripted to pilot an Evangelion was a tough assignment. Wait'll he finds himself recruited to spy on NERV, and expose the deadly secrets it holds...Welcome to CONTROL, Shinji, aka the new Agent-86--hope you don't miss it by that much!
It's March 1953 and Stalin rules the Soviet Union with an iron fist. To weaken potential usurpers he has splintered the fearsome NKVD into rival agencies and appointed his own officers to undermine every authority that isn't his own, leaving the Soviet intelligence agencies in disarray and at war with themselves. Into the mists of this war a promising young officer-cadet from special orphanage 'Red' is thrust at the age of sixteen.
For reasons unknown, James—a deceased, possibly psychopathic, expert in the field of Polemology and the History of Human Conflict—is recruited by a shadowy individual for… indeterminate purposes.
Meanwhile, in Udoris, another Great War looms on the horizon; one borne of greed, vengeance and a warmongering reincarnator's seemingly petulant whims.
Eric Jordan is a middle-ranking agent for the SIS, pulled into a tangle of secret American agencies by a contact he can't trust and under orders from an agency that he isn't sure is the same anymore. For all that this Shield touts itself as defending humanity, its espionage as practiced often gives the lie to what it says.