"[Andy McNab] delivers authenticity in spades."--Publishers Weekly

"McNab’s great asset is that the heart of his fiction is not fiction: other thriller writers do their research, but he has actually been there."Sunday Times (London)

If he hadn’t needed the cash so badly, Nick Stone would never have messed with the Russian mafia.But the lucrative offer was one he couldn’t refuse.The job seemed simple enough: kidnap a ruthless mob boss and deliver him to St. Petersburg. But Stone soon realizes that the mob may be the least of his problems. Russia has embarked on a new Cold War offensive--hacking into the West’s computer systems and stealing their military secrets--and Stone is caught between the scheming British and American intelligence agencies and the ruthless Russians who want to silence him.