This instant #1 New York Times bestseller and “modern techno-thriller” (New York Journal of Books) follows Mitch Rapp within a race to avoid Russia’s gravely ill leader from starting a full-scale war with NATO.

When Russian president Maxim Krupin discovers that he offers inoperable brain cancer tumor, he’s determined to cling to power. His first task is certainly to destroy or imprison some of his countrymen who are able to threaten him. Soon, though, his illness becomes serious plenty of to need a even more dramatic diversion—war about Red War with the West.

Upon learning of Krupin’s condition, CIA movie director Irene Kennedy realizes that the US is facing an opposition who has nothing to lose. The only way in order to avoid a confrontation that could leave millions dead can be to send out Mitch Rapp to Russia under impossibly harmful orders. With the Kremlin’s entire protection apparatus hunting him, he must discover and kill a man many have considered the most powerful in the world.

Success means averting a war that could consume most of Europe. But if his mission is discovered, Rapp will plunge Russia and America right into a issue that neither will survive in “a timely, explosive novel that presents just as before why Mitch Rapp is the greatest hero the thriller genre must provide” (THE TRUE Book Spy).