The CIA's headquarters should be the safest spot on the planet, but Langley is experiencing a series of gruesome murders. A highly professional, violently psychopathic assassin, who hideously disfigures his victims, is striking without mercy.

It is the beginning of Kirk McGarvey's career as a CIA black ops officer. Fresh out of the Air Force OSI, he receives his first assignment: assassinate a Chilean general known as the Butcher of Valparaiso, a monster who has tortured and killed more than one thousand dissidents at a soccer stadium. McGarvey manages to cross the border over the mountains from Argentina without being discovered, and even makes his way to the general's remote compound....

"When Kirk McGarvey investigates the long-ago, mysterious death of his parents, he uncovers long-buried secrets that put him head to head and mano a mano with . . . Vladimir Putin. When Mac calls Putin out, the Russian dictator decides he wants him dead. Battling Russian hit squads as well as enemies at home, McGarvey must fight like the devil to save himself, his friends, and the US of A. With this sweeping, epic novel, David Hagberg takes the reader...