‘Danger, intrigue and glamour. Honestly, my job’s got the lot. If it wasn’t for the hitmen paid to kill me and this ticking bomb of a case I should have never accepted, who knows? I might even enjoy it…’ 

Private detective Marc Novak is given one week to find the lost treasure of the Romanovs, or his friends and family will be killed. But he’s somehow got to stay one step ahead of assassins, the Russian secret service and a mysterious, beautiful former spy if he’s to stand any chance of saving his own life, let alone those of his loved ones.

He  uncovers a global conspiracy that stretches back centuries, and the current guardians of one of history’s greatest secrets won’t hesitate to murder anyone who threatens it. Outnumbered, outgunned but never out-thought, Novak must use all his guile and audacity if he’s to unravel the deadly riddle of the Romanov Code…