Hunting Season - Alex Carlson

Only one things stands between Russian Special Forces and their target: a very determined man. High in the mountains, a CIA safe house is under siege. Inside, a woman with the weight of a country’s future on her shoulders cowers with her family. Cut off from the outside world, their odds, like the weather outside, go from bad to worse. For former CIA operative Rhys Adler, the job was meant to be a junket, a thank you from Berlin Station for previous services. Come on down to the Alps with your motorcycle, the station chief had said, train the new guy for a week and then ride through the mountains to your heart’s content with a generous per diem. Easy. Now, after an incoherent phone call from the high-altitude safe house twenty kilometers away, his job will be anything but easy. It will require everything Rhys has. Partnering with Marine sniper Manny Hernandez, Rhys is about to embark on the impossible: stopping a platoon-sized Spetsnaz reconnaissance group. Gunshots will echo through the mountains. Fortunately, it’s hunting season. First introduced in Alex Carlson’s acclaimed Born to Die in Berlin, Rhys Adler—one of the genre’s most promising characters—returns in this gripping thriller, a page-turner that races from the opening scene to an exhilarating climax.