The second Lachlan Kite book, and it splits the same way the first one did. In 1993, Kite is a young officer sent into post-Soviet Russia under cover as an English teacher, running an exfiltration of a bioweapons scientist out of Voronezh — an operation that goes wrong enough that thirty years later his name turns up on a Russian assassination list called Judas. In the present he has to go back into Russia to finish what he started, with the FSB waiting. The 1993 half is the good one: A kid in a cold country with a bad legend and no way out if it slips.
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