From*New York Times*bestselling authors Steve Berry and Grant Blackwood comes an action-packed adventure: in the waning days of the Cold War, Luke Daniels embarks on a quest in search of the legendary library of Ivan the Terrible-the unlikely key to ending a looming threat orbiting two hundred miles above the earth.*
Wrapping up his latest assignment for the Magellan Billet, Luke Daniels*receives*a surprise visit from the head of a former-CIA operation named Sommerhaus*-*a failed attempt to assemble an espionage network within the Ukraine on the eve of the Russian invasion. *Sommerhaus ranks high on Luke's list of painful regrets for it was during this mission that his friend, CIA case officer John Vince, was captured by Russian operatives and*supposedly*executed. *But Luke is provided some shocking news. *Vince is alive, in failing health, locked behind the walls of Russia's brutal Solovetsky Island prison, and has a critical message he'll give to no one but Luke. *Needing no further convincing Luke vows to bring Vince home. *
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However, just as he manages to extract his friend from prison Vince tragically dies and his final words are rambling and incoherent.* Just bits and pieces.* But enough to plunge Luke into a hunt for something lost since the 15th century.* The legendary library of the first Tsar of All Russia, Ivan the Terrible. *
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Within that priceless collection of rare manuscripts is the key to unraveling a modern-day cipher and stopping a secret Soviet satellite program that still exists. *But Luke is not the only one on the trail.* Others, both inside and out of Russia, want the library for a totally different reason - to re-start the Red Star program and finally unleash its destructive potential.* Luke's mission is clear.* Find the lost library, solve the puzzle, and prevent Red Star falling.
