Cold War follows the story of a freelance journalist who finds himself in the midst of an international conspiracy that aims to control the U.S.S.R. Twelve hours after arriving in Moscow for a routine story he has been stripped of all possessions beaten unconscious and thrown into the KGB s political prison. Using only recovered weapons and improvised gadgets he must now evade or overcome elite Soviet forces and defeat the conspiracy before he is sent to a Siberian prison camp or killed.