The Queen's Pawn

<p><strong>CIA checkmated . . . a defecting oligarch meets a grisly death in London over a game of chess. CIA investigator Jayne Robinson is sent to Moscow on a high-risk mission to find out why. And the US president prepares for a crisis summit as Russia grabs a chunk of Ukraine.</strong></p><p>The dead oligarch is apparently ready to pass on top secret information about the Kremlin's increasingly hostile plans and strategy. But he never gets the chance.</p><p>Jayne Robinson is dispatched to Moscow to extract information from a highly-placed asset in Russia's foreign intelligence service.</p><p>But the operation does not go to plan, and Robinson is left in a desperate battle not just to get what she needs, but for her personal survival.</p><p>The ensuing game of diplomatic chess becomes highly personal for Robinson as she swiftly learns it's impossible to know who to trust-either on the other side, or on her own.</p><p>She ends up delving deep for answers into the dirtiest and most dangerous corners of Russian and western European capital cities-as the US president fights to save his career.</p><p><strong><em>The Queen's Pawn</em></strong>, book number four in the best-selling Jayne Robinson series, is a nail-biting spy thriller with throwbacks to the Cold War and twists that will shock the reader.</p>