A defector on the run. A faceless assassin. Breed’s toughest mission.
When CIA operator Anya Stein offers Breed a job in Vienna, he arrives just in time to save her from Russian assassins led by a deadly blonde in dark sunglasses.
Stein explains the mission: protect defecting rocket scientist Dieter Kromik, who holds the secret to Russia’s devastating Oreshnik missile – a conventional weapon that delivers a
nuclear-sized punch.
The Russians already have elite teams on the ground – and they’ll do whatever it takes to find and kill Kromik. Spetsnaz teams and the enigmatic assassin Strelko hunt them through the streets of Vienna and escape seems impossible. Their only hope lies with the Magnificent Strang, an ageing Cold War-era magician who once smuggled fugitives across the Iron Curtain.
With his beautiful granddaughter Liesl, Strang guides the group on a deadly journey from Vienna to Prague to Berlin. Outnumbered and outgunned at every turn, Breed fights a running battle across Europe as the body count rises.
The bloody finale awaits in a smoky Berlin nightclub, where Breed and Stein must use every one of their lethal skills – and a few of Strang’s illusions – to survive against impossible odds.
Cameron Curtis has spent thirty years on trade floors as a trader and risk manager. He was on the trade floor when Saddam’s tanks rolled into Kuwait, when the air wars opened over Baghdad and Belgrade, and when the financial crisis swallowed the world. Having written fiction as a child, he is the author of the Breed action thriller series.
My thoughts: For Breed, it seems the Cold War never really ended. He’s still facing the same foes – Russians with bad attitudes towards international relations. He’s assisting in transporting a scientist across Europe for Stein and the CIA. Unfortunately, that isn’t a popular decision for regular nemesis Orlov, who once again faces Breed, gun in hand.
As they attempt to escape their pursuers, Stein and Breed enlist an old friend of Stein’s grandfather, the illusionist The Magnificent Strang, who once smuggled defectors across the Iron Curtain. Can he do the same for them and get them safely from Prague to Berlin, where the plane awaits?
Fast-paced and with a rather large and messy body count across three countries, Breed is rapidly running out of places he’s welcome, and Stein has some colleagues who aren’t very helpful at all. Relying on essentially the kindness of strangers rather than fellow agents, she has no real choice either. There’s a little bit of time for sightseeing, which considering they’re on the run, is quite funny. But Breed enjoys seeing the world in between gunfights.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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