"When he is sent to take out the Chechen war criminal, Abbas Magomadov, a colonel in the infamous Kadrovitsy, the 141st Special Motorized Division, Harry Bauer finds that somebody got there before him and, literally, took Magomadov apart. Was it Magomadov’s personal assistant, Salambek Bazurkaev, who has now gone missing? Or the amiable, courteous but inscrutable Bohdan Fedorko, a Ukranian refugee, secretary to the cult of Nergal, in which Magomadov had become involved? Or was it the mysterious and beautiful Anna Molyboha, who had been seen visiting Magomadov on several occasions before his death?"