The brutally authentic, tense and terrifying thriller from bestselling author and frontline journalist James Brabazon 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 with the fate of the world in his possession, failure is not an option . . .Combining the intelligence and inside knowledge of Robert Harris and Frederick Forsyth with the raw inventiveness of I Am Pilgrim and the breathless pace of films like Mission Impossible or John Wick, Arkhangel sees James Brabazon stake his claim as rival to Lee Child, David Baldacci and Gregg Hurwitz as a master of the modern action thriller. 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