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A high-stakes Cold War adventure introducing Polands master of espionage fiction

Introducing Polands John le Carr: former spy and bestselling author Vincent V. Severski.

Martin, a former British spy, enjoys a quiet retirement in the Scandinavian wilderness, far from Vauxhall Cross. But his peace is shattered when an active MI6 officer arrives with a macabre photograph and a question. A severed hand bearing a cryptic Cyrillic tattoo has been found in the shipyards of Britains new nuclear submarines. What does it mean?

The question drags Martin back thirty years to Helsinki, when, as the Soviet Union finally began to crumble, he was sent on a desperate mission to find out the truth behind an alarming provocation, deep beneath the Atlantics waves

He was thrown into a shadowy duel between KGB spymasters, MI6 handlers and Finnish counterintelligence, as an old world was giving way to the new, and the global order hung