Kirjahaku

A couple of years have passed since the Libyan dictator, Gadaffi, was savagely murdered. The half billion dollars he embezzled from the Libyan people for his personal gain was stolen by a depraved moneylaunderer known only as Cartwright. Now, a rumour has reached Katya Petrovna, deputy director of the G8 intelligence agency, that Cartwright has been spotted at a luxury hotel development on the coast of Morocco. Following the tip off Katya and her team head to the Sahara where her life dissolves into a terrifying nightmare as she discovers Cartwright is as violent and treacherous as he is corrupt. Dredging up every art of manipulation and deception learned from her early life on the streets of Moscow and a dozen G8 operations, she stumbles blindly into Cartwright's dark world of moneylaunderers, prostitution racketeers and terrorists. As the screw turns Katya plunges deeper into danger. The pressure to find the money and return it to the Libyan people intensifies. Long buried conflicts from her past begin to surface. Is there a way she can escape to a life of freedom or should she overcome the whisperings and complete the deadly mission. Whatever Katya has in mind. Cartwright has other thoughts.

Katya Petrovna is a risk-taker. It's what led her to leave her job at the Russian Federal Security Service and join the new G8 Intelligence Agency. But her reputation as headstrong and independent precedes her, and G8 wonders if she's ready for their dangerous missions. When a Russian woman is caught at London Heathrow airport with a suitcase full of cash, John Hammond, G8's Director General, assigns Katya her first operation: infiltrate a Russian mafia-run casino on the Black Sea. Katya goes undercover as the daughter of a wealthy ex-KGB officer looking for a good time. But as she delves deeper into the casino's operations, she finds herself out of her depth. The mafia's reach extends all the way to a Chinese Tong Casino in Macau, where they're running a brutal trafficking operation. And with each step, Katya's mistakes put her in even more danger. She tries to recruit Kirill, a casino floor manager who she knew as a street kid in Moscow, as an informant. But as the stakes get higher and the risks greater, she can't be sure if he's on her side or working for the mafia. Katya's descent into the dark world of the high-stakes casino trade is a nightmare of cruelty, torture, and death, but she can't stop now. The girls in the trafficking trade need her to do what she does best: take a gamble.