Red Star Down

A gripping international thriller from the author of THE STAR OF THE NORTH

A gripping international thriller from the author of THE STAR OF THE NORTH

It's 2018. A desperate, starving 18-year-old North Korean defector makes it to the US consulate in Hanoi, Vietnam. He knows only one Western name. Jenna Williams. He asks to meet her.

Jenna works under an alias at the US embassy in Russia arranging university exchanges - the cover for her role as a senior intelligence officer assigned to the CIA's Moscow station. She 37 years old, a Korean-African-American.

With Jenna's help, Woo-jin, known as 'Books', receives the asylum and US citizenship granted to all North Korean defectors. He speaks Russian and English well, so at Jenna's suggestion he starts to study at the American School in Moscow so that she can help him acclimatise to the world outside North Korea.

But while watching a television news conference on the eve of a summit in Singapore, Books is shocked to discover he recognises one of the the president's aides, Eric Rahn. He was a fellow cadet of the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School in North Korea.

Jenna requests an urgent face-to-face meeting with the CIA director to warn him that the White House has been infiltrated. But with North Korean killers closing in, Jenna must get out of Russia fast. At the same time in Singapore, as the historic meeting with the North Korean leader is about to begin, Eric Rahn has the President's ear, and urges him to make a secret promise that will have fateful consequences...