A cutting-edge novel of international crime and its consequences, from Nigeria to Russia to Washington, from the former deputy assistant secretary of state.
Judd Ryker #4
G.P. Putnam's Sons
September 2017
On Sale: September 5, 2017
Featuring: Judd Ryker
368 pages ISBN: 0399175946 EAN: 9780399175947 Kindle: B01NCWH2X1 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
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.
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