Christopher Karic

Someone had found me, opening my private casket that day in San Francisco. I’d been all but dead for years, living the life of straggler and vagabond, but one with an odd and special set of skills. But now, with the appearance of the mysterious Russian beauty on the streets of San Francisco, who herself possessed a story to match my own, I was once more drawn into a world of deception and savagery, into a wilderness of mirrors where nothing was as it seemed, drawn back to a time in my life when I had been a lethal tool to one of the world’s great powers. And as I found myself sinking back into this dark landscape of deception and betrayal -- the ultimate prize a secret government encryption program developed in the Silicon Valley -- I found myself torn, torn between my love for the women I had met and my desire for revenge and retribution against those who had wronged me.

Here begins the story of Alex Dukic, former spy, now renegade, with seemingly no friends in the world, once more engaged in the great game as he encounters his former ally, but now virulent foe, in a match of wits on the streets of San Francisco.