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"An uncanny feat of non-fiction evoking James M. Cain and Graham Greene."
 

Vanity Fair

*An Amazon Editors' Pick: Best Nonfiction

*A Foreign Policy Best Summer Reading Pick

"A gripping story, stranger than fiction, superbly told." Tim Weiner, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

When a young American named Billy Reilly vanished into Russia's war with Ukraine, his parents embarked on a desperate search for answers. Was their son’s disappearance connected to his mysterious work for the FBI, or was it a personal quest gone wrong? Only when Wall Street Journal reporter Brett Forrest embarks on his own investigation does a picture emerge: of the FBI's exploitation of U.S. citizens through a secretive intelligence program, a young man's lust for adventure within the world's conflicts, and the costs of a rising clash between Moscow and Washington.

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