Man on Edge
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
A tense and twisting espionage thriller involving state secrets, lethal assassins and the threat of a new Cold War.
Trauma surgeon Carrie Walker is taken aback when her estranged uncle makes contact out of the blue. Senior Russian naval officer Artyom Semenov claims to be in possession of an explosive piece of information which he is offering to share with the West. But can he be trusted?
Travelling to Moscow undercover to meet with Semenov, Carrie finds herself stranded when the carefully-planned operation goes catastrophically awry. In grave danger, there’s only one person she can turn to for help: her former fiancé, Major Rake Ozenna of the Alaska National Guard.
Aware how vital it is that he reaches Carrie before others do, Rake knows he’s pitted against a powerful and lethal enemy. But is it a rogue agent - or the Russian state? As preparations gather pace for a high-profile NATO exercise off the Norwegian coast, Rake must act fast if he is to prevent a global catastrophe.
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In Hawksley's Man on Ice (2018), Alaska National Guard Maj. Rake Ozenna helped thwart an attempted Russian invasion of the U.S. Relatives of the nine Russian soldiers he killed on Alaska's Little Diomede island are now seeking vengeance in this unconvincing sequel. Three Russians try to kill Rake during a presentation he's giving at a Washington, D.C., conference without success. Meanwhile, physician Carrie Walker, Rake's onetime fianc e, is in peril inside Russia, where she has traveled to meet her vice-admiral uncle, Artyom Semenov, a specialist in submarine technology. Semenov is hoping to use Carrie to transfer some highly classified state secrets to the West. The operation is botched amid indications that the British embassy in Moscow has been compromised, leading to frantic efforts on Carrie's part to stay alive. Rake goes to her rescue. Too many chance developments keep the lead characters safe. Hawksley fails to make the politics of his post-Trump, post-Putin setting feel real.
