As I always say about the Marvel comic hero Captain America, if you are on the opposing side of Captain America, you are on the wrong side. He became the most wanted man in the world when he rooted out, at the highest levels of government, those who betrayed him on the battlefield in Afghanistan.

If you’ve had the pleasure to read Jack Carr’s first two books in this series, you will know that James Reece has lost about everyone he cares about while in the service of his country. He wants to hunt the most dangerous Apex Predator on the planet…a US Navy SEAL. Like any person who has to keep pushing their obsessions further and further to get the same thrill, he wants a hunting experience with the highest risk, and therefore the most satisfying reward. To Zharkov’s mind, they are all expendable. He brings like-minded men to his island to hunt men and women who have been unlucky enough to fall victim to his ire, or they might even be just ordinary people snatched from the streets of Africa. On Medny Island, he can indulge his hunger to hunt and kill the most dangerous predator on the planet…homo sapiens. In fact, he goes a step further: he kills with relish. In the past, these people felt alone and knew they would have to control their darkest cravings, but now they can easily find others with the same urgings, and they encourage and facilitate each other’s most aberrant behavior.Īleksandr Zharkov has risen through the ranks of the SVR, a Russian intelligence organization John le Carré (from the glossary in the back of the book) describes as the “KGB in drag.” Zharkov is the type of ruthless, immoral psychopath that governments find to be useful. Many positive things have come from the advent of the internet, but as we acquire more data, we are learning that there are very negative aspects to the internet, and one of those is the ability of psychopaths and those with deviant desires to find one another. They yearned to experience the hunting of man.” To those who had adorned their walls with most every species the planet had to offer, a few longed for one more trophy, one they wouldn’t be able to brag about at cocktail parties in polite society. It was where Aleksandr offered the hunt of a lifetime.

The Dark Web was where Aleksandr offered a specific service to the discerning and niche customer. Weapons, child pornography, human trafficking, and illicit drugs were the mainstays of the realm, trading with bitcoin cryptocurrency, moving people and destroying lives at 50 megabits a second.

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