[Judd Ryker 04] • The Shadow List

**A cutting-edge novel of international crime and its consequences, from Nigeria to Russia to Washington, from the former deputy assistant secretary of state. **

We laugh when it pops up in our inbox: the scam letter promising a windfall. We wonder: *How does anybody fall for these things?* But it is no laughing matter. It is one of the biggest organized crime rackets in the world, it is deadly - and State Department crisis manager Judd Ryker has fallen right into the middle of it.

The disappearance of a young American in London sends Ryker into the heart of a corruption scandal in Nigeria, at the same time his CIA agent wife Jessica finds herself chasing a Russian master criminal known as the Bear. Unknown to either of them, they are pulling at two ends of the same lethal thread, a staggeringly vicious enterprise of piracy, extortion, and murder.

*The world is messy and dangerous, Jessica warns her husband.More dangerous than you know.* But he is about to find out.