"IF HE WAS STILL ALIVE, IT WASN'T OVER." American John Wyatt, a reluctant banker, lives in Moscow where he and his beautiful wife Katya move among the cosmopolitan elite, enjoying the prosperity of New Russia. But their sophisticated world is destroyed when in one blood-soaked night Wyatt's business partners and their families are all brutally murdered. When his car is blown to smithereens, Wyatt knows he too is marked for death. Injured and on the run, evading mafiya killers and ex-military mercenaries, Wyatt flees to the rural Russian southland. There Katya's family, ancestral Cossacks, rally to their defense, while Wyatt struggles to uncover who's after him and why. His search sends him into the Ukrainian underworld, while fighting for his life at every turn. What he discovers pits Wyatt against powerful conspirators executing a diabolical plot. One that could plunge the globe into world war -- unless he can stop it.