From a Washington insider comes a riveting spy thriller in which politically incorrect, staunchly conservative Boston P.I. Ian Wallacean ex-CIA field officercomes face to face with the KGB colonel who ended his CIA career. Twenty years after ex-CIA special ops agent Ian Wallace watched a KGB colonel brutally murder the love of his life and their unborn child, he's still wishing Vladimir Ivanchenko had killed him, too. Endlessly haunted by nightmarish memories of torture, Wallace, the fanatically conservative private investigator, can't seem to escape the bowels of Moscow's Lubyanka prison, even while enjoying the comforts of life in suburban Boston. But when Ivanchencko comes to Beantown on another twisted mission, who better to hunt him downthe Russian mafia don is now deemed the most dangerous man in the worldthan the payback-seeking Wallace? All he must do is dedicate the next two weeks of his life to guarding Ivanchenko's targetan obnoxious, greedy, and big governmentloving MIT professor, whose research on Ballistic Missile Defense is a matter of national security. That, and partner up with the irresistibly sexy and tough-as-nails Kathy Donahue. But Wallace's bloodthirsty desire for Ivanchenko's demise reveals his own evil nature, and even Wallace doesn't know to what maniacal extreme he will go to exact his revenge.