<p><b>The brutally authentic, tense and terrifying thriller from bestselling author and frontline journalist James Brabazon<br><br>''Totally James Bond''</b><i> THE TIMES</i><br><b><br>''Escape into a world of black ops, spies and assassins. A James Bond for the 21st century''</b><i> EXPRESS</i><br>______<br><b><br>Officially, Max McLean doesn''t exist.</b><br><br>An off-the-books assassin for the British government, he operates alone.<br><br>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.<br><i><br>Is someone from Max''s former life trying to send him a message?</i><br><br>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.<br><b><br>And when the secret coded into the banknote is finally revealed, only one thing is certain:<br><br>With th