HELL IS TOO GOOD A PLACE FOR A SADIST. . . .
Twenty years after ex-CIA special ops agent Ian Wallace watched a KGB colonel brutally murder the love of his life and their unborn child, heâs still wishing the monster Vladimir Ivanchenko had killed him off, too. Endlessly haunted by nightmarish memories of torture, Wallace, the fanatically conservative private investigator, canât seem to escape the bowels of Moscowâs Lubyanka prison, even while reaping the comforts of life in suburban Boston.
But when the devil himself comes to Beantown on another twisted mission, who better to hunt down Ivanchenkoâthe Russian mafia don now deemed the most dangerous man in the worldâthan the fueled-by-guilt and hungry-for-revenge Wallace?
All he must do to earn the forty grand the CIA offers him for the task is dedicate the next two weeks of his life to guarding Ivanchenkoâs targetâan obnoxious, greedy, and big governmentâloving MIT professor, whose research on Ballistic Missile Defense is a matter of national security. That, and partner up with the irresistibly sexy and tough-as-nails Kathy Donahue. Straight from the bleak deserts of war-torn Afghanistan, she just might be the secret to opening up Wallaceâs sealed and scarred heart. Tension between the highly experienced agents builds, but Wallaceâs bloodthirsty desire for Ivanchenkoâs demise reveals his own evil nature, scaring Donahue away. And, as friends and enemies sacrifice their lives to harbor and reveal secrets, Wallace doesnât know to what maniacal extreme he will go to bury his own.
