A soft breeze fluttered the white blue and red Russian flag in front of the UN mission I remember when the Soviet hammer and sickle flew there I kind of miss the Cold War But I think its backRADIANT ANGELAfter a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther John Corey has left the Anti-Terrorist Task Force and returned home to New York City taking a job with the Diplomatic Surveillance Group Although Coreys new assignment with the DSG-surveilling Russian diplomats working at the UN Mission-is thought to be a quiet end he is more than happy to be out from under the thumb of the FBI and free from the bureaucracy of office life But Corey realizes something the US government doesnt The all-too-real threat of a newly resurgent Russia When Vasily Petrov a colonel in the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service posing as a diplomat with the Russian UN Mission mysteriously disappears from a Russian oligarchs party in Southampton its up to Corey to track him down What are the Russians up to and why Is there a possible nuclear threat a so-called radiant angel Will Corey find Petrov and put a stop to whatever he has planned before its too late Or will Corey finally be outrun and outsmarted with America facing the prospect of a crippling attack unlike anything its ever seen before Prescient and chilling DeMilles new novel takes us into the heart of a new Cold War with a clock-ticking plot that has Manhattan in its crosshairs.