[Rhys Adler 02] • Hunting Season

Only one things stands between a Russian Spetsnaz unit and its target: a very determined man.

High in the mountains, a CIA safe house is under siege. Inside, a woman of exceptional promise cowers with her family. Cut off from the outside world, their odds, like the weather outside, go from bad to worse.

For former CIA operative Rhys Adler, the job was meant to be a junket, a thank you from the Berlin station chief for previous services. Come on down to the Alps with your motorcycle, she had said, train the new guy in perimeter security and then ride through the mountains to your heart’s content with a generous per diem. Easy.

Now, after an incoherent phone call from the high-altitude safe house, it will be anything but easy. It will require everything Rhys has. Partnering with Manny Hernandez, a former Marine sniper and newly minted CIA operative, Rhys is about to embark on the impossible: stopping a fully-outfitted Spetsnaz reconnaissance group. Gunshots will echo through the mountains. Fortunately, it’s hunting season.

Returning with characters from his acclaimed Born to Die in Berlin, Alex Carlson’s gripping thriller races from the opening pages to an exhilarating climax. Rhys Adler, one of the most promising characters in the genre, is even more intriguing.