Engines throbbing, the salvage ship slipped into the secluded cove…
October Guinness stood in the small side yard of her…
No one in the Central Intelligence Agency wanted to be…
Colonel F. Scott McClintock, United States Army, retired, stared through the one-way…
Stefan Baklanov awoke in the grip of a blind terror.
Tobie found the Colonel at his desk, his head bent…
A powerful monument in marble and steel, the Walker Pharmaceuticals…
Jax was at his desk skimming through an article on…
Lieutenant General Gerald T. Boyd was the kind of general Americans…
Tobie was at home, curled up on the sofa with…
The Major pulled into the darkened driveway in the leafy…
The night was hot, the air thick with the scent…
“I’m sorry, Mr. Aldrich,” said the unsmiling young woman behind the…
The massive doors of the airplane hangar rolled open, filling…
The newspaper was the latest edition of the International Herald…
Stefan forced himself to concentrate on putting one foot in…
Burrowing deep into her jacket, Tobie stepped off the flight…
Jax let his gaze travel from Andrei Gorchakove to October…
“You didn’t expect it to really be here, did you?”…
Jax noticed the Kawasaki behind them as they were pulling…
Swinging through the open hatch, Jax felt the thick, dank…
Tobie let out a startled yelp as Jax slammed into…
General Gerald T. Boyd was halfway through his morning workout routine…
The Tatar kept a heavy foot on the gas all…
They rented a beat-up old Lada from a shady outfit…
The Lada coughed. Caught.
“How did he find us here?” whispered October.
The call from Rodriguez came through when Gerald T. Boyd was…
The flight from Kaliningrad to Berlin smelled of raw onions…
Early the next morning, Stefan was crouched down on his…
Serene and sun-kissed, the city of Izmir stretched out in…
The ship-or what was left of it-had been dragged a…
The two men walked along the Reflecting Pool in the…
The ruins of the ancient Greek agora lay on the…
The Heckler and Koch was a massive model 23. The…
Tucking Erkan’s Walther out of sight beneath his sweat-soaked shirt,…
By the time their connecting flight from Munich swooped down…
The farmhouse lay on the edge of a desolate glen,…
The U-Boot Archiv lay on a narrow street not far…
The closer Stefan drew to Yasnaya Polyana, the more skittish…
Crouched in a narrow space between the seat and the…
The Mumbrauer turned out to be a rustic old Gasthaus…
Jax quietly ordered three more Beck’s beers, although Tobie had…
“You didn’t eat much,” said Jax after the big Texan…
Jax floored it, the engine whining as he shifted rapidly…
Vice President T. J. Beckham stood behind his wide, well-polished desk and…
“This isn’t going to work,” said October. Wrapped in one…
As far as Gerald T. Boyd was concerned, remote viewing belonged…
By one o’clock that afternoon, Jax and Tobie were in…
Borz Zakaev kept a heavy foot on the gas as…
Hotel Offredi was built into the side of a dusty,…
They walked together down the narrow set of concrete stairs…
In the sudden silence, Tobie became aware of the fans…
Jax was in their room at the Hotel Offredi, pacing…
“I shouldn’t have let you go by yourself,” said Jax,…
Leon Ginsburg lived in an ancient stone house on a…
The call from Andrei came through about ten minutes later.
Stefan awoke cold and tired and hungry. He’d passed a…
The chopper came down on a grassy helipad beside a…
Stefan dove through the broken archway, his shoulder exploding in…
The two Russians the militia shot down near the creek…
Her name was Dr. Svetlana Bukovsky. A small, slim woman with gray-streaked…
Early that morning, General Gerald Boyd took the train up…
By the time their connecting flight from Berlin touched down…
By the time Rodriguez reached Rock Creek Park, the first…
Like Division Thirteen, the archives of the ODIS lay deep…
General Gerald T. Boyd settled back into the comfortable leather seat…
Dr. Hannah Clark received them on the wraparound porch of her gingerbread-draped…
“Maybe we’ve been going at this all wrong,” said October.
“Take him!” shouted Jax. Dropping to the floor in a…
They were on I-270 headed toward the Virginia state line…
Jax was tying the stem line to a cleat on…
Turning the wheel hard, October slammed the side of the…
Tobie thrust open the gray door and fell into a…
Jax stared through the wavy plastic barrier at the young…