The brutally authentic, tense and terrifying thriller from bestselling author and frontline journalist James Brabazon ''Totally James Bond'' THE TIMES ''Escape into a world of black ops, spies and assassins. A James Bond for the 21st century'' EXPRESS Officially, Max McLean doesn''t exist. An off-the-books assassin for the British government, he operates alone. But when a routine hit goes badly wrong, a cryptic note on a $100 bill prised from his target''s dead fingers suggests there''s more to the mission than meets the eye. Is someone from Max''s former life trying to send him a message? From Paris to Jerusalem and on to the frozen wastes of north-west Russia, Max is forced into a desperate race for the truth - with unknown enemies determined to stop him at any cost. And when the secret coded into the banknote is finally revealed, only one thing is certain: With the fate of the world in his possession, failure is not an option . . . A razor-sharp action thriller with the raw inventiveness of I Am Pilgrim and the breathless pace of movies like John Wick and James Bond , Arkhangel sees James Brabazon stake his claim alongside Lee Child, David Baldacci and Gregg Hurwitz as a master of the genre. Praise for James Brabazon ''Don''t plan on sleeping'' Lee Child ''A full-throttle exercise in tension'' CRIMETIME ''A thriller of an unusually classy calibre'' Financial Times ''Outstanding . . . I couldn''t put this book down'' Andy McNab
