Red Star Falling

I just finished reading Red Star Falling, the latest adventure novel by Steve Berry. Most of Berry's thrillers feature Cotton Malone, a retired agent for a top-secret U.S. intelligence service called the Magellan Billet. Although Malone is retired and owns a bookstore in Copenhagen, he is frequently called back to help deal with especially tricky situations. However, this new novel features Luke Daniels, a fellow Magellan Billet agent and a character featured in the Malone series. The plot revolves around the news that a CIA agent believed dead after disappearing during an assignment in Russia is actually alive and imprisoned in a remote Russian prison. The CIA wants Daniels to investigate to ascertain if this is true. And after verifying the agent's location at the prison and pulling off a daring prison escape, Daniels learns of a plan to crash an up-to-now forgotten Soviet era nuclear armed satellite into the Kremlin during a party congress, killing not only all the delegates but also the Vladimir Putin like Russian president, blaming it all on the U.S. This was a worthwhile read and has an exciting finish, but I still prefer the Cotton Malone series. However, I'll take this one until the next Cotton Malone thriller comes out.