Arkhangel

The brutally authentic, tense and terrifying thriller from bestselling author and frontline journalist James Brabazon

Totally James Bond THE TIMES

Escape into a world of black ops, spies and assassins. A James Bond for the 21st century EXPRESS
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Officially, Max McLean doesnt exist.

An off-the-books assassin for the British government, he operates alone.

But when a routine hit goes badly wrong, a cryptic note on a $100 bill prised from his targets dead fingers suggests theres more to the mission than meets the eye.

Is someone from Maxs former life trying to send him a message?

From Paris to Jerusalem and on to the frozen wastes of north-west Russia, Max is forced into a desperate race for the truth - with unknown enemies determined to stop him at any cost.

And when the secret coded into the banknote is finally revealed, only one thing is certain:

With the fate of the world in his possession, failure is not an option . . .
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A razor-sharp action thriller with the raw inventiveness of I Am Pilgrim and the breathless pace of movies like John Wick and James Bond, Arkhangel sees James Brabazon stake his claim alongside Lee Child, David Baldacci and Gregg Hurwitz as a master of the genre.

Praise for James Brabazon

Dont plan on sleepingLee Child

A full-throttle exercise in tensionCRIMETIME

A thriller of an unusually classy calibreFinancial Times

Outstanding . . . I couldnt put this book down Andy McNab