When twelve-year-old Valentina fails to return from a visit to her father in Moscow, alarm bells start ringing. Her rich and powerful family know there’s one man they can depend on to bring her back safe: former SAS major Ben Hope.
But what starts off as an apparently straightforward case of parental child abduction quickly takes on more sinister dimensions as Ben travels to Moscow and starts to investigate the whereabouts of Valentina and her father, Yuri – a man with a hidden past not even his ex-wife knows about.
Now that past has caught up with him, it’s not only Yuri’s life that is in danger, but Valentina’s too. If Ben Hope can’t save them, nobody can . . .
Praise for The Moscow Cipher:
‘The seventeenth novel in Scott Mariani’s utterly superbly fantastic Ben Hope series – I read it in one glorious day. Completely engrossing.’
—For Winter Nights
‘Fast and furious action from start to finish . . . A must-read.’
—The Book Club
‘This year’s must-read thriller . . . The Moscow Cipher will leave you speechless and praying for Ben Hope in his riskiest mission ever. Peerless writing and a plot that sustains the suspense right to the end.’
—Cambridge Times
‘Exciting, brilliantly written, and Ben Hope is as magnificent as ever.’
—Goodreads
‘If you like your conspiracies twisty, your action bone-jarring, and your heroes impossibly dashing, then look no farther.’
—Mark Dawson, international bestselling author of the John Milton series