First published 2008
Lieutenant Colonel Charley Castillo stares at crime scene photos scattered across his desk. Intelligence informers are turning up dead, and the killings bear troubling resemblances to methods used in a recent case involving CIA traitors. The Delta Force officer cannot shake the feeling that these murders follow a pattern, but the connections remain maddeningly unclear. When an arms dealer contacts Castillo with an ominous warning, the stakes escalate dramatically. The dealer insists the deaths trace back to Moscow, suggesting the Kremlin has launched a systematic campaign to eliminate American intelligence assets. Castillo must untangle the web connecting the murdered informants, the traitorous CIA operatives, and Russian intelligence operations. As bodies pile up and the conspiracy deepens, he races to identify the next targets before more assets disappear. The investigation forces Castillo into a deadly game where distinguishing allies from enemies becomes increasingly difficult, and where one wrong move could expose an entire network of American operatives to lethal retribution.
Genres: military-fiction, action, mystery-thriller, espionage, political-thriller
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Moscow, Russia
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
464 pages · Hardcover · Putnam Adult
Content warnings: violence