The year is 1928, and American mercenary Echo Maebius is seized while fleeing Russia after the disappearance of Joseph Stalin. Just when things can't get any worse, Echo's doppelganger walks into the room, offering him a way out-but with a terrible catch. Now, broken, damaged, and alone, Echo must find out why his closest comrade Jez has disappeared from his life-and why the failure of their mission in Moscow is responsible. Told in alternating chapters between Echo's past and present, The Deadliest Echo is a science fiction thriller about assassination, alternate paths, and the dangers of being a foreigner in a country newly raised from revolution. It is a powerful tale about the thin line between loneliness and friendship, and the intricate web of secrets that forces Echo to confront the one truth he most wants to escape... Unless he can finish the mission he never completed in Moscow, the whole world will pay the price for his failure.