Talon of Scorpio

Superagent Alix Nico returns in a new Shadowstorm thriller from the author of Blades of Winter, which was hailed as "a hell-bent-for-leather mash-up of spy novel and science fiction" by Jason Bourne novelist Eric Van Lustbader. Alix Nico, code-named Scarlet, is a one-woman demolition derby. As a top American Level, she's a cybernetically and biologically enhanced operative fighting a Cold War among the forces of freedom, a Soviet Union that never fell, a China hungry for power, and a Germany that emerged from World War II more powerful than ever. There's a mole within ExOps, the covert agency responsible for the security of the United States, who has been working to decapitate the organization's leadership. And when treason strikes, Scarlet and her partner, Darwin, find themselves matched against a rogue Level known as Talon, a merciless killing machine whose augmentations place her in a league of her own. But behind Talon lurks the real...