The brutally authentic tense and terrifying thriller from bestselling author and frontline
journalist James Brabazon'Totally James Bond' THE TIMES'Escape into a world of black ops spies
and assassins. A James Bond for the 21st century' EXPRESS______Officially Max McLean doesn't
exist.An off-the-books assassin for the British government he operates alone.But when a
routine hit goes badly wrong a cryptic note on a $100 bill prised from his target's dead
fingers suggests there's more to the mission than meets the eye.Is someone from Max's former
life trying to send him a message?From Paris to Jerusalem and on to the frozen wastes of
north-west Russia Max is forced into a desperate race for the truth - with unknown enemies
determined to stop him at any cost.And when the secret coded into the banknote is finally
revealed only one thing is certain:With the fate of the world in his possession failure is
not an option . . .______A razor-sharp action thriller with the raw inventiveness of I Am
Pilgrim and the breathless pace of movies like John Wick and James Bond Arkhangel sees James
Brabazon stake his claim alongside Lee Child David Baldacci and Gregg Hurwitz as a master of
the genre.Praise for James Brabazon'Don't plan on sleeping' Lee Child'A full-throttle exercise
in tension' CRIMETIME'A thriller of an unusually classy calibre' Financial Times'Outstanding .
. . I couldn't put this book down' Andy McNab
