Brent Laartz

Sean Stamos, the now-famous FBI and CIA legal spy, and Natalia Volkov, a world-renowned investigative business journalist, are fresh off saving the world from her Russian family's plot to destabilize financial markets. Now, after the resulting firestorm, the embattled pair have embarked on separate professional adventures. Natalia and her partner, Chip, have been occupied sailing around the world, but she has been seeking a change in her career path. In a surprise move, Stamos is about to find himself at the head of a new FBI Division of Domestic Counterintelligence, fighting domestic terrorism. Meanwhile, the same Russian enemies, not easily defeated, are hatching a plot to influence elections, not with misinformation, but in a more direct purge. The three must join forces again in a race against the clock to discover all the players before it's too late for thousands of Americans. Set in the backyards of Georgia, Arizona, and Michigan, the mystery pits Stamos against his old nemesis, Russia, with plot twists and an explosive ending.

Sean Stamos, the now-famous FBI and CIA legal spy, and Natalia Volkov, a world-renowned investigative business journalist, are fresh off saving the world from her Russian family's plot to destabilize financial markets. Now, after the resulting firestorm, the embattled pair have embarked on separate professional adventures. Natalia and her partner, Chip, have been occupied sailing around the world, but she has been seeking a change in her career path. In a surprise move, Stamos is about to find himself at the head of a new FBI Division of Domestic Counterintelligence, fighting domestic terrorism. Meanwhile, the same Russian enemies, not easily defeated, are hatching a plot to influence elections, not with misinformation, but in a more direct purge. The three must join forces again in a race against the clock to discover all the players before it's too late for thousands of Americans. Set in the backyards of Georgia, Arizona, and Michigan, the mystery pits Stamos against his old nemesis, Russia, with plot twists and an explosive, deadly ending.

Natalia Volkov, a former Russian Olympic sailor, has reached the pinnacle of her career in business journalism. She has become one of the world's foremost experts in developing markets and market prediction research. She has just developed a market monitoring program that utilizes artificial intelligence to spot trends in active trading and trading algorithms which will predict the ups and downs of the market. The problem is that her program has uncovered the mother of all coordinated trading schemes that threatens to destroy the entire fabric of Western civilization as we know it. She enlists the help of her college confidante, Chip Merlin, and a rising star in the FBI and CIA, Sean Stamos, to bring to light the perpetrators of this incredible crime of the century. In doing so, she will reveal her own inner strengths that will enable her to focus on her priorities and shed the influence of her overbearing family. Set in the backdrop of America's Cup sailing on the Solent, the mountaintops of Switzerland, and the streets of Manhattan, this tale is one of adventure and the rising influence of women on the ancient, once male-dominated sport of sailing.