If you are reading this I am dead...So begins the letter Derek Stillwater receives from a former lover. This letter sends him rushing to Moscow to look into the death of his former lover - and to meet the young son he didn't know he had. But Irina Khournikova's colleagues in the FSB, the Russian Intelligence Service, don't appreciate Derek poking around in an active terrorism investigation and make that point very clear to him within hours of arriving in Moscow.But before Derek can start his own investigation, he gets caught in a terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy. And as a favor to the Secretary of State, he agrees to investigate the apparent suicide of a weapons inspector in Siberia. Are they related?Soon Derek finds himself in the cross-hairs of an international assassin and a Russian terrorist organization calling itself The Red Hand. But when The Red Hand kidnaps his son to use as leverage against him, Derek and FSB Agent Konstantin Nikitinov will team up to get him back - and they will stop at nothing.Derek and Konstantin are about to teach the terrorists the real meaning of terror."Mark Terry writes like Lee Child on steroids." -The Lansing State Journal