The Cure

He possessed the cure. Now he’s a ghost. And she’s the only one who can stop the plague.

The Orient Express, 1963. Dr. Janus Lubyanka carries a secret that can save—or obliterate—millions: a cure for the deadliest virus ever created. But before he can deliver it, he is violently abducted from a Vienna platform, vanishing into the night with his precious briefcase.

Anastasia Petrova, ex-KGB operative and now MI6’s most volatile asset, is roused from exhausted sleep. The call is terse, the mission impossible: find the doctor, recover the cure, prevent a global pandemic. For Anastasia, Vienna is a homecoming of the worst kind—a descent into a world of shadows she thought she’d escaped.

Hunted by her former KGB comrades who know her every trick and entangled with a cynical British agent who trusts no one, Anastasia must use every weapon in her arsenal: seduction, poison, and the lethal skills beaten into her at the infamous School of Roses. From the opulent decay of Vienna to the brutalist heart of Moscow’s Lubyanka prison, and onto the frozen, deadly expanse of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the chase becomes a personal crusade.

But the virus is not the only thing spreading. A deeper conspiracy is unfolding, one that pits nation against nation in a race for ultimate power. To survive, Anastasia must confront the ghosts of her past and decide how much of her humanity she is willing to sacrifice. In a game where the stakes are human extinction, the only rule is dog eat dog. And Anastasia is no one’s prey.