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"Longtime Coonts fans who share his political leanings will best appreciate this outing."—Publishers Weekly

"The story moves along at a brisk pace, with plenty of intrigue, which will please thriller fans."—Booklist

"Since switching publishers a few years back, Coonts has consistently delivered high-powered, conspiracy-laden political thrillers that are perfect for fans of Vince Flynn and Brad Thor."—Real Book Spy

It Starts with a Murder . . . Will It End with a Coup?

Stephen Coonts, master of suspense, has captivated readers around the world by writing thrillers ripped from the nation’s headlines.

His newest, The Russia Account, pits CIA officer Tommy Carmellini against a murderous international financial conspiracy that leaves a trail of death and corruption, extending from a small bank in Estonia to the highest reaches of the Kremlin and the halls of Congress—perhaps even to the CIA itself, putting Admiral Jake Grafton, the head of the CIA, in the crosshairs of an assassin.

Burglar-turned-CIA-warrior Tommy Carmellini has starred in eight previous Coonts thrillers. With the help of his mentor, Admiral Grafton, Carmellini has always managed to foil his enemies. Discovering and defeating the powerful forces behind this massive bloodstained financial conspiracy that threatens the very foundations of the United States government, and maybe the life of the president of the United States, will be his most difficult challenge yet—and perhaps, he suspects, an impossible one.

By turns thrilling, shocking, and even prophetic, The Russia Account is Coonts in top form. It is a reading experience not to be missed.
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“Stephen Coonts’ newest thriller, The Russia Account, reads like ‘the story behind the story’ in our daily headlines. If you wonder how Moscow’s ‘black-ops’ threaten American democracy, read this book. Just don’t start reading it in bed. You will surely lose a good night’s sleep.” -- ―Lt. Col. Oliver North, USMC (ret.), host of American Heroes on NRATV and bestselling author

“A crooked secretary of state plotting to be president, a dossier designed to smear her opponent, shady uranium sales to Russia, demands for impeachment, corrupt government officials, and a diabolical conspiracy to destroy America. Stephen Coonts has taken the threads of our present-day scandal and woven a dazzling novel of suspense. He is the master of thrillers.” -- ―Gregg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst and commentator and bestselling author of The Russia Hoax

About the Author

Stephen Coonts is one of America’s greatest thriller writers. A former naval aviator and Vietnam combat veteran, he is the author of The Assassin, The Disciple, Liberty’s Last Stand, The Armageddon File, and sixteen national bestsellers including Flight of the Intruder, which was made into a major motion picture. A graduate of West Virginia University and the University of Colorado School of Law, Coonts resides in Colorado with his wife.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Regnery Fiction (August 13, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 334 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1621576604
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1621576600
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.18 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
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Stephen Coonts is the author of 14 New York Times bestsellers, the first of which was the classic flying tale, FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER.

Born in 1946, Stephen Paul Coonts grew up in Buckhannon, West Virginia, a coal-mining town of 6,000 population on the western slope of the Appalachian mountains. He majored in political science at West Virginia University, graduating in 1968 with an A.B. degree. Upon graduation he was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy and began flight training in Pensacola, Florida.

He received his Navy wings in August, 1969. After completion of fleet replacement training in the A-6 Intruder aircraft, Mr. Coonts reported to Attack Squadron 196 at NAS Whidbey Island, Washington. He made two combat cruises aboard USS Enterprise during the final years of the Vietnam War as a member of this squadron. After the war he served as a flight instructor on A-6 aircraft for two years, then did a tour as an assistant catapult and arresting gear officer aboard USS Nimitz. He left active duty in 1977 and moved to Colorado. After short stints as a taxi driver and police officer, he entered the University of Colorado School of Law in the fall of 1977.

Mr. Coonts received his law degree in December, 1979, and moved to West Virginia to practice. He returned to Colorado in 1981 as a staff attorney specializing in oil and gas law for a large independent oil company.

His first novel, FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER, published in September 1986 by the Naval Institute Press, spent 28 weeks on the New York Times bestseller lists in hardcover. A motion picture based on this novel, with the same title, was released nationwide in January 1991.

The success of his first novel allowed Mr. Coonts to devote himself full time to writing; he has been at it ever since. He and his wife, Deborah, enjoy flying and try to do as much of it as possible.

Mr. Coonts' books have been widely translated and republished in the British Commonwealth, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Russia, China, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Serbia, Latvia, and Israel.

Mr. Coonts was a trustee of West Virginia Wesleyan College from 1990-1998. He was inducted into the West Virginia University Academy of Distinguished Alumni in 1992. The U.S. Naval Institute honored him with its Author of the Year Award for the year 1986 for his novel, FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER. Mr. Coonts and his wife, Deborah, reside in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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The Bank of Scandinavia has a very small branch in Tallinn, Estonia. This bank is unique in that it processes millions of dollars per day, with transfers coming in from Russia. The branch manager, an American woman, contacts a relative in the Congress when her young daughter disappears. The police in Tallinn, as well as the U.S. Consulate have not been successful in locating the young girl. The member of Congress uses her influence to meet with CIA Director Jake Grafton to see if his agency could investigate. They will and they do. Does the missing girl have anything to do with the financial transfers? Yes.Grafton assigns his assistant Tommy Carmellini to investigate and sends him and a small team to Tallinn. What they discover is that it is not millions passing through this branch bank it is billions over the past two years. From this branch the funds are transferred through multiple banks until the funds cannot be found, with much of it headed to the United States.All is not what it seems. While the transfers come from an approved bank in Russia, there is no evidence that the money at origin is real. Grafton and his team determine that there is an international financial conspiracy and not simply to make men rich, but to overturn the government of the United States. The funding is used by a certain political group.“The Russia Account”, recently released, by author Stephen Coonts was a fun read. The story is realistic, and yet set against the current political challenges that we as a country are facing in Washington, D.C., as well as throughout the country. Those readers, whose political views are conservative, as are this reader, will love this novel. Those readers that have a progressive political view, will not like this novel. Good job Mr. Coonts!
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5.0 out of 5 stars High flying Coonts
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The Bank of Scandinavia has a very small branch in Tallinn, Estonia. This bank is unique in that it processes millions of dollars per day, with transfers coming in from Russia. The branch manager, an American woman, contacts a relative in the Congress when her young daughter disappears. The police in Tallinn, as well as the U.S. Consulate have not been successful in locating the young girl. The member of Congress uses her influence to meet with CIA Director Jake Grafton to see if his agency could investigate. They will and they do. Does the missing girl have anything to do with the financial transfers? Yes.

Grafton assigns his assistant Tommy Carmellini to investigate and sends him and a small team to Tallinn. What they discover is that it is not millions passing through this branch bank it is billions over the past two years. From this branch the funds are transferred through multiple banks until the funds cannot be found, with much of it headed to the United States.

All is not what it seems. While the transfers come from an approved bank in Russia, there is no evidence that the money at origin is real. Grafton and his team determine that there is an international financial conspiracy and not simply to make men rich, but to overturn the government of the United States. The funding is used by a certain political group.

“The Russia Account”, recently released, by author Stephen Coonts was a fun read. The story is realistic, and yet set against the current political challenges that we as a country are facing in Washington, D.C., as well as throughout the country. Those readers, whose political views are conservative, as are this reader, will love this novel. Those readers that have a progressive political view, will not like this novel. Good job Mr. Coonts!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Exciting.....With Current Political Intrigue
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2019
The Bank of Scandinavia has a very small branch in Tallinn, Estonia. This bank is unique in that it processes millions of dollars per day, with transfers coming in from Russia. The branch manager, an American woman, contacts a relative in the Congress when her young daughter disappears. The police in Tallinn, as well as the U.S. Consulate have not been successful in locating the young girl. The member of Congress uses her influence to meet with CIA Director Jake Grafton to see if his agency could investigate. They will and they do. Does the missing girl have anything to do with the financial transfers? Yes.

Grafton assigns his assistant Tommy Carmellini to investigate and sends him and a small team to Tallinn. What they discover is that it is not millions passing through this branch bank it is billions over the past two years. From this branch the funds are transferred through multiple banks until the funds cannot be found, with much of it headed to the United States.

All is not what it seems. While the transfers come from an approved bank in Russia, there is no evidence that the money at origin is real. Grafton and his team determine that there is an international financial conspiracy and not simply to make men rich, but to overturn the government of the United States. The funding is used by a certain political group.

“The Russia Account”, recently released, by author Stephen Coonts was a fun read. The story is realistic, and yet set against the current political challenges that we as a country are facing in Washington, D.C., as well as throughout the country. Those readers, whose political views are conservative, as are this reader, will love this novel. Those readers that have a progressive political view, will not like this novel. Good job Mr. Coonts!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good action, faulty basis
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2019
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Coonts writes a good action novel, and this is one of those - plenty of action and a decent plot. We again follow Jake Grafton, CIA Director and his Executive Assistant Tommy Carmellini through the seedy underworld and the seedy world of politics.

Coonts adds his own political views, though very slightly veiled, and brings the action into today's actual political landscape. Some readers will enjoy this, others will not.

Unfortunately, in this novel, the basis for the entire plot is faulty - the "Russian Bank" would not be able to create funds out of thin air and transfer them to the "Bank of Scandinavia" without the use of a "correspondent bank", where the actual settlement of funds would have to take place, or one of the clearing house organizations like SWIFT. When one sets that aside, then the reader can enjoy the overall chase for the money. Some readers may have trouble putting that flaw aside.

Most flaws I find in novels tend to be of the "threading a sound suppressor onto a revolver" type, or putting a "clip into a revolver" or some such other nonsense regarding weapons - this flaw (the creation of "Monopoly Money" and the turning it into "Read Money" however is the basis for the entire plot. It bothered me the entire time I was reading the book.

A few other items I noted - the author says that all lawyers are listed on the Martindale & Hubble website - not true, as M&H charges lawyers to be listed, many small one or two man law offices, do not pay for listings, and thus are not listed nor rated. (Page 155 hardcover). At least one does not have to go to the library any more to look at the M&H ratings, as they are now online.

Another area of believability, was the cellular phone service available in the middle of nowhere Utah. As described the safe house was located "in the middle of the emptiest spot on the American map" I have looked at the cellular coverage maps - there would not be any cell service there, although in the book, the characters send and receive calls on their cell phones regularly.

One other minor issue, and probably just a proof reading error - on page 291, the FBI is referred to as “the agency" - wrong - the FBI is always referred to in such slang as “the bureau".

Ok, I tend to get a little "nit-picky" on the details, but to me, those are the things that can knock a book down by a star (or two) in my ratings.

Still this is a fun book to read.
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Liza
5.0 out of 5 stars Story about mutual hatred society
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2019
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Envy is one of the most joyless sins and when the envy is felt for the most powerful and richest state - the United States of America- then the envy ends with the desire for destruction of that country.

Stephen Coonts uses the current political situation and turns it into the plot for his new book The Russia Account. The ultra liberals in the United States are bent on impeaching the sitting President and make a pact with Russia to flood the United States with illegal/fake money which then used for compromising their political opponents.

Russians,however,always envious of and hating the US, are not interested in supporting just one party but pursue their own agenda funneling that money to all parties compromising all involved.
Fighting among themselves and throwing dirt at each other, politicians begin the destruction of the American society.
The plot is clever,plausible and smart.
The book is a warning to any society which might be torn up from within with vultures waiting on the outside.

The political plot of The Russia Account is lightened up with Tommy Carmellini humour and Admiral Grafton wisdom - both of them superb as usual.
Good and enjoyable book!
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Don Musgrove
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Story - Very Timely
Reviewed in Canada on October 20, 2020
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This was a very enjoyable book dealing with a subject that does not appear too often. Pick this book up and read it now!
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Chris.J
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Coonts
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 10, 2020
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Loved it! Stephen Coonts knows how to tell a good yarn and the Russia Account is no exception; from the get go it has you thinking. I didn’t want to put it down and when I had to, couldn’t wait to pick it up again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Epic Novel
Reviewed in Australia on September 15, 2019
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Counts does it again.
Fast passed thriller with lot.
From the overseas kidnapping of a child to the implosion of the American political system - Coonts nails it, a must not miss epic
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Eyes wide open
4.0 out of 5 stars A decent read
Reviewed in Canada on May 15, 2021
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Not his finest work, but is an interesting read. Obvious US political parallels and in places commentary. While graft on is a long time hero in the series, his actions and decisions as CIA director were well outside what the law provides, but it’s all for good I guess. The FBI is at best inept and open to corruption. But a good read, particularly if you’ve followed the characters
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4.0 out of 5 stars Loved it.
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