Return to Darkness

2006 proves to be a deadly year for journalists and dissenters in the Russian Federation. Hard-hitting investigative reporter Mara Belovskaya was shot and killed in the lobby of her apartment building. Her friend, Russian defector Karol Malenkov, was poisoned in a London sushi bar while investigating her murder. Evidence points to the Russian government.

Mara has left behind a computer disk containing damaging information for Russia. When a list of double agents also surfaces, the FBI hires...