What choice can he make with only 18 minutes? FSB Agent Max Thorne might be shy and lack confidence, but he has never lost any of the high-value detainees he transports ... yet. Assigned a daunting new mission, Max must lead a two-man team and transfer a high-profile banker to a safehouse in Moscow. Meanwhile, overwhelming opposition is determined to free the banker at any cost. With no safehouse, no backup, and no options, Max must make an impossible choice. But can he do it in only 18 minutes?

Max Thorne is a Russian covert operative ... or is he? Demoted FSB Agent Max Thorne, struggling with a troubled, unknown past and aimless future, accepts a near-impossible assignment: bring a traitor who is hiding in the United States back home to Russia. Max has never lost any of the high-value detainees he transports, and this mission could prove his allegiance to the agency. But he’d be working in hostile territory, with an untested new team, and his career and life are on the line. As the Russian team is ambushed while descending on Washington, DC, Max discovers that his fate is inescapably linked to that of the “traitor.” Now there is even more at stake … his mysterious past may tie him to the CIA. With no time to determine whom to trust, will he find the courage to stand between the Russian service and an innocent man? And in doing so, will Max be deemed a traitor himself?

What price would you pay to learn the truth? Russian FSB Agent Max Thorne, recovering from a daring assignment in the United States that led to shocking discoveries about his mysterious past, begins the search to put together the missing pieces … even if it means facing the darkness that is the Russian secret service, head on. His mission leads him down a spiral of lies, betrayal, and deception. Barely able to stay one step ahead of powerful forces determined to protect these secrets at all costs, Max is determined to do the right thing. But what price is Max willing to pay to learn the truth, and can he protect the ones he loves?

Can an assassin have a conscience? While hunting for the truth about his past, former Russian FSB agent Max Thorne has lost any sense of innocence or hope. But striving for redemption, he joins the Special Operations Team, an elite international assassins team so secret even top level FSB brass doesn’t know it exists and so deadly that few leave alive. Reeling from inexcusable mistakes and now working with even darker forces, Max is confronted with insidious choices and inescapable scenarios. With no way out, will Max be able to suppress his conscience to execute his harrowing assignments? Or, will he fail, putting his family in peril and betraying his own? Join Max as he faces the darkness that is the secret service the only way he knows how ... head on.