AMERICA. John Barron, a member of an elite squad of the LAPD, is hunting a cold-blooded assassin, Raymond Thorne. Despite the adrenalin-fuelled determination of the squad to capture him, the kilter escapes and Barron is confronted by his own colleagues, and to protect his sister more than himself，flees with her to London.

EUROPE. A powerful and influential group of people, many with pure Romanov blood in their veins, gathers in Paris for a meeting which wiU change the political map of the world. At the same time another ex-member of the LAPD squad is murdered, alerting Barron to the chilling fact that Thorne is stilt at work. Armed with the few clues Thorne had abandoned in LA, Barron is determined to discover the reason for his own exile, and is drawn into a maelstrom of intrigue in the centre of which is his sister.

RUSSIA. In the harsh cold of St Petersburg, the Romanovs prepare for what they believe is their birthright - to re-estabUsh the monarchy. Thorne is among them. as is the innnocent Rebecca. And John Barron follows them. atone in a strange country, with none of the fire-power or back-up he's been trained to rely on. He knows he is likely to die. but he also knows that if he turns his back on his sister he has no reason to be alive.

Prologue

PART 1 Los Angeles

PART2 Europe

PART3 Russia 

Epilogue

Acknowledgments