"He is enticed by the CIO to go Moscow, Russia to help smuggle Karina Prekrasnyy, the beautiful secretary of the bookkeeper of the Solntsevskeya Bratva Pravda mafia, out of Russia. Karina has proof linking the SBP’s prostitution operations in Chicago to Mayor Riccardo Gennaro’s corrupt administration. Gatewood also has another mission, to travel to the Ukraine, the Chechen Republic, and the Crimean Peninsula to discuss options for American support for rebel insurgency actions against Russia.
After Gatewood and Karina fall in love, a determined SBP mafia assassin, Eveny Khariton, chases the couple across Russia, the Ukraine, the Chechen Republic, the Crimean Peninsula, Belarus, and Poland to prevent their escape to freedom."