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Thanks to the publisher and author for providing me an advanced reader copy (ARC) for an honest review.

This is the first Ted Bell book I have read, and before I review the story, I must explain something. I am from the United States, and Ted Bell is from the UK. I was caught off guard at first with the language differences initially, but eventually slipped into a comfortable reading rhythm. Yes, of course it's English, but words are used in the UK that are not used in the US.

This series starts off painting a picture of a MI6 agent, Agent Hawke, who apparently has a semi-friendship with Russia's President Vladimir Putin. There is a lot of back story and history that has created this hard to fathom relationship, and Bell does a great job filling in the reader on how this came to be. So even though this is book 9 in the series, it can be easily read stand alone. The story bounces around the globe trying to prevent attacks on many fronts, and this story is a 2 sitter as I was glued to the pages, but had to stop to eat a few times. Ted Bell uses factual data using what Russia has been up to lately, and even though the US President in the story is not Obama, it might as well had been, as his weaknesses hold true in real life.

This is worth picking up as soon as it comes out in stores. It is a great thriller, and you will be swept away by the hard core characters and adventures they get themselves into.