Shadow Strike

“Quickly, other individuals noticed the dead body, bringing further vocal and physical realisation to the horror of what had just happened. Panic spread as people grasped that there was a shooter nearby, and soon, more and more people were screaming, running, and fleeing the scene. Meanwhile, Pierce was edging away from the kill zone, but his focus remained on the crowd. They had lost Wu Zhi and the intelligence coup she had promised, but they still might learn something from the shooter. He scanned for anomalies and soon spotted one. A tall, muscular man in a jacket and cap, with his back to Pierce, walked from the scene with speed but not urgency. More telling, he was unperturbed by the chaos of panicked citizens rushing around him. When he discreetly dropped a suppressed semi-automatic pistol into a rubbish bin, Pierce knew he had identified the assassin.”

Capsule Summary:

When CIA operative Mark Pierce resurfaces on a mission tied to a lost Chinese hypersonic missile, his undercover past collides with the present in the form of his former Russian commander turned assassin. From Kuala Lumpur to Osaka and beyond, Pierce must confront old trauma to stop a geopolitical catastrophe.

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Locations:

Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Osaka (Japan), Tibe (China), Saint Petersburg and Moscow (Russia), Donetsk (Ukraine), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam).

Allies:

  • Rachel Zang — paramilitary operative, codename “Ronin” (CIA)
  • Mackenzie Summerfield — senior targeting analyst (CIA)
  • Akash Parab — technical operations officer (CIA)
  • Patricia Knight — senior operations officer and team boss (CIA)
  • Abdul Ibrahim — Chief of Special Operations Group (CIA
  • Karen Dwyer — chief of Eastern Europe (CIA)
  • Matsumoto Ren — paramilitary intelligence officer (PSIA)
  • Arai Tamiko — intelligence officer (PSIA)

Villains:

  • Victor Zhidko — former Zaslon major, elite assassin (SVR/Zaslon)
  • Admiral Chen Hao —Navy admiral (PLA Navy)
  • Nikolai Solovyow — sergeant major (SVR/Zaslon)

Major Action Sequences:

Park assassination and mall fight (Kuala Lumpur), Dotonbori district pursuit (Oska), Refinery shootout (Osaka), Minefields and frontline battle (Donetsk), Freeway and icesheet chase (Saint Petersburg), Road chase through Japanese mountains (Wakayama).