Kill Chain A Novel

TERROR IS A TOUGH BUSINESS TO LEAVE, AFTER 20 YEARS OF FEELING SAFE, THEY PULL HIM BACK IN?Thirty years ago, repentant ex-terrorist Pascual Rose sold out his former comrades in exchange for a new identity and a low profile in Barcelona. Terror is a tough business to get out of, and Pascual spent the first few years dodging people who thought he owed them. But it's been a couple of decades since anyone's even bothered to track him down, and living in a provincial Catalan town, getting by on translation piecework, with a wife and son who don't care what he once was, Pascual has finally put his past behind him. Or so he thinks, until midnight visitors' text him: Come join us on the terrace.Suddenly, the sins of his past are back to be used against him-and now his family-unless he cooperates. This time, though, there is the promise of reward, to the tune of one million dollars, for an ask that seems relatively easy. Pascual finds himself trapped in a money-laundering scheme involving a nexus of diverted revenues, shell companies and cryptocurrencies, besieged by shadowy benefactors, Russian mafiosos, German intelligence agents, and a mysterious woman with a chilling warning: get out before it's too late. Navigating a whirlwind situation full of twists and turns and mortal danger where no one can be trusted and nothing is happenstance, Pascual races against time to uncover who or what is behind the operation that, once exposed, has the potential to take down entire governments and global financial markets.