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Red Warning

A Novel

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"Intricately plotted with extraordinary characters and riveting action." —Jack Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of In the Blood

In this electrifying thriller from the author of The Night Agent now on Netflix, CIA officer Sam Hudson races to find a deep cover operative loose in the U.S. and a mole in the Agency before they can launch a devastating attack on Washington, D.C.

For years CIA officer Sam Hudson has been hunting Konstantin, a Russian deep cover operative responsible for a string of assassinations in the West—and he believes a well-placed source in Geneva can finally get him close to the killer. But when their meeting is ambushed, Sam's partner is murdered and he barely makes it out alive himself.

Back in the States, the bosses put him on leave and want him to drop his obsession with Konstantin, but Sam can't let a man who's taken so many lives slip away again. When he gets a mysterious call at the Lincoln Memorial just before a bomb goes off, he realizes Konstantin has followed him to the U.S.—and is targeting him and everyone close to him. Teaming up with fellow CIA officer Emily Pierce, he sets out to redeem himself and uncover a plot that has been lying in wait since the end of the Cold War, its elements hidden among the most iconic buildings in the capital.

With enemies lurking both inside and outside the Agency and the Russian threat looming ever larger, Sam must use all his training and nerve to stop Konstantin before he can trigger the plot to devastate Washington and bring the U.S. to its knees.

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Look for these other pulse-pounding thrillers by Matthew Quirk:

  • Hour of the Assassin
  • The Night Agent
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  • Cold Barrel Zero
  • The Directive
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      • Library Journal

        January 1, 2022

        In Bentley's Tom Clancy Zero Hour, Jack Ryan Jr. is interviewing a Campus prospect in Seoul when North Korea's leader is devastatingly injured, prompting a power struggle among sleeper agents in South Korea. In Berry's The Omega Factor, UNESCO investigator Nicholas Lee is following a lead to the long-missing 12th panel of the relentlessly plundered Ghent Altarpiece when he stumbles upon a centuries-old conflict between some no-nonsense nuns called the Maidens of Saint-Michael and the Vatican, desperate to grab a secret the maidens guard (200,000-copy first printing). Having appeared in six best-selling DeMille novels, retired NYPD Homicide Detective John Corey is hanging out at his uncle's waterfront estate on Long Island when he heeds a call to help find a serial killer who is dispatching prostitutes and burying them along the beach in The Maze (originally scheduled for June 2021; 500,000-copy first printing). Pulled from the icy Pacific and presumed dead, a revived Elle can remember little except her name in Dodd's stand-alone, Point Last Seen, but it surely looks to rescuer Adam like someone tried to kill her (75,000-copy paperback and 10,000-copy hardcover first printing). What could be Red on the River in the next exemplar of Romantic suspense from Feehan, which is set in the Sierra Nevada mountains? When tomb raiders kill archaeologist Riley Smith's father after he discovers the burial site of Helen of Troy, Riley seeks revenge while asking forensic sculptor Eve Duncan to reconstruct A Face To Die For (100,000-copy first printing). Marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch have their hands full in Knott's Robert B. Parker's Opium Rose when the daughter of Virgil's half-brother arrives in Appaloosa, having fled San Francisco following the death of her lawyer husband; apparently, he was involved in a big opium operation. In Escape, a follow-up to Patterson's Black Book, a rich-as-Croesus crime lord breaks out of jail and leaves a taunting note for crack Chicago detective Billy Harney, who he knew would be called to the scene (300,000-copy first printing). In Quirk's Red Warning, CIA officer Sam Hudson is nearly blown up in Geneva as he obsessively tracks Russian mole Konstanin, then dodges bombs back in Washington, DC, when Konstanin follows him home (125,000-copy first printing).

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      • Booklist

        April 1, 2022
        Fear you're being stalked? Try this: walk for a few days down a street with heavy video surveillance. Then, with a few cute maneuvers on your laptop, access the cameras' video feeds. Does the same face reappear? You now have something to show the cops. A dozen such tidbits add spice to Quirk's latest spy novel, which brings together some genre staples: sleeper agents, double crosses, and murder. CIA spook Sam Hudson's bosses think he's off base about Konstantin, a shadowy Russian operative whom Sam is sure is behind a decade of unsolved assassinations. Sam contends he has hints that Konstantin is in D.C. and has plans to blow up a considerable chunk of official Washington. But something seems off. A search reveals a cache of Semtex, which hasn't been used in assassinations for a decade. Seeing the connections and thwarting the loony plot occasion fights, chases, torture, and gunplay--all in the service of a well-told if conventional spy thriller. Some readers may find themselves yearning for more of those insider tidbits. Want success in Washington? Never use two words: ""sorry"" and ""just.

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      • Publisher's Weekly

        April 18, 2022
        Despite being on paid leave for overzealously pursuing past cases, CIA officer Sam Hudson, the hero of this fast-paced thriller from Quirk (Hour of the Assassin), refuses to back off his search for a deep cover Russian agent, code-named Konstantin, believed responsible for the assassination of several U.S. operatives overseas. Hudson believes Konstantin has already arrived in Washington, D.C., and is behind a recent bombing, as well as a dramatic explosion on the Mall that killed a U.S. senator. Hudson teams with fellow CIA officer Emily Pierce, and together they endure several bloody encounters with embedded Russian agents who are planning to take Konstantin’s plan a step further by activating an operation set in place 35 years earlier by Soviet spies. A tense, subterranean confrontation between Hudson and Konstantin caps off the action. In the end, neither lead character leaves much of an impression, and the middle of the convoluted plot contains references to events and characters that will be meaningful only to those who have read other books by this author. Fans of Quirk’s rock ’em, sock ’em brand, however, will be satisfied. Agent: Dan Conaway, Writers House.

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