The Ghost

Kiev, 2011. In the gutted ruin of the compound where he was made, an aging ghost sits across from the man who built him-and reaches for his gun.For fifty years Viktor Kopytin has been the perfect weapon: loyal, patient, untraceable. But America made him softer, and grief made him something more dangerous still-a man with a conscience and a debt he intends to collect. To settle it, he must burn down everything the KGB spent his childhood building, beginning with his old teacher and ending with the truth he has kept from the daughter he has watched from the shadows her entire life.She has her father's eyes and her father's training-an SVR killer who does not yet know what she is, or who left a photograph waiting in a Helsinki dead drop for the day she would come looking.And somewhere in America, the compound's grown children are living quiet lives with soccer balls in the back seat and secrets in their bones-while a journalist assembles a story decades in the making.The haunting fifth novel in the Coca-Cola City saga, The Ghost is about fathers and children, freedom and reckoning, and the moment a weapon finally decides who it wants to be.

Kiev, 2011. In the gutted ruin of the compound where he was made, an aging ghost sits across from the man who built him-and reaches for his gun.For fifty years Viktor Kopytin has been the perfect weapon: loyal, patient, untraceable. But America made him softer, and grief made him something more dangerous still-a man with a conscience and a debt he intends to collect. To settle it, he must burn down everything the KGB spent his childhood building, beginning with his old teacher and ending with the truth he has kept from the daughter he has watched from the shadows her entire life.She has her father's eyes and her father's training-an SVR killer who does not yet know what she is, or who left a photograph waiting in a Helsinki dead drop for the day she would come looking.And somewhere in America, the compound's grown children are living quiet lives with soccer balls in the back seat and secrets in their bones-while a journalist assembles a story decades in the making.The haunting fifth novel in the Coca-Cola City saga, The Ghost is about fathers and children, freedom and reckoning, and the moment a weapon finally decides who it wants to be.