In 1945, the NKVD buried a weapon in America — a man frozen in time, ordered to wake decades later and kill whoever holds the Presidency. But when a wrecking crew accidentally frees Mikhail Andropov in 2017, he gets something his masters never planned for: eight years to look at the country he was built to destroy. On inauguration eve, he surrenders instead. He believes the mission died with him. He's wrong. In a Maine sub-basement, a second chamber is counting down — and the woman inside carries one final order: if the primary asset is a liability, resolve it. Now a reformed ghost, a purpose-built killer with a dead country's errand, and the FBI agent hunting them both are converging on a hole in the ground where it all began. Some orders outlive the men who gave them.
In 1945, the NKVD buried a weapon in America — a man frozen in time, ordered to wake decades later and kill whoever holds the Presidency. But when a wrecking crew accidentally frees Mikhail Andropov in 2017, he gets something his masters never planned for: eight years to look at the country he wa...