Leader of the NUMA Special Assignments team, Kurt Austin must work
with a former KGB spy to save the United States from a lunatic with a
generations-spanning grudge in this novel in the #1 New York
Times-bestselling series.
Kurt Austin is preparing for an interview while aboard a research vessel
in the Black Sea. But his television spot suddenly becomes a rescue
mission when the waiting film crew is attacked on a nearby island. With
little information on the attackers, and no clue to their true agenda,
Austin is forced to turn to an unlikely source: his old KGB Cold War
adversary Vladimir Petrov. According to Petrov, the island is actually
an old submarine base that's been commandeered by clever
mobster-turned-billionaire-businessman Mikhail Razov. Razov is certain
he descends from the great Romanov family and he's out to reclaim his
rightful position as czar of Russia. With a powerful resource called
"fire ice", discovered by his mining company, Razov may just have the
ammunition he needs to take over the modern world. To stop him, Austin
will have to work with Petrov. And he'll have to find out fast how much
trust he can offer an old nemesis in this thrilling adventure that "goes
down like a chilled Stolichnaya martini." (Kirkus Reviews)