In the third book from New York Times best-selling author Mackenzi Lee in Marvel's Rebel and
Renegade series she explores Bucky Barnes—also known as the Winter Soldier. 1954: The Winter
Soldier is the Soviet Union’s greatest weapon. Assigned the most dangerous covert missions from
the USSR’s secret military branch and guided by a handler who knows him better than he knows
himself he has only one purpose: to obey orders.But he wasn’t always the Winter Soldier . . .
1941: As World War II begins sixteen-year-old Bucky Barnes is determined to enlist in the US
army—if only the local commander will stop getting in his way. When Bucky is offered enrollment
in a training program with the British Special Operations Executive—the UK’s secret service—he
leaps at the chance to become a hero. But Bucky has hardly touched down in London when he finds
himself running from a mysterious assassin and accompanied by an English chess champion fond of
red lipstick and double crosses. She’s in possession of a secret every side is desperate to get
their hands on. If only they knew what it was . . . Decades later the Winter Soldier
struggles to solve the same mystery Bucky is just beginning to uncover. As their missions
intersect across time their lives collide too—in a way that neither of them would have
expected and that will change the course of their respective wars. In The Winter Soldier:
Cold Front New York Times best-selling author Mackenzi Lee explores the youth of one of
Marvel’s most compelling characters James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes—and the enemy soldier he is
forced to become.
