Ruby Red Death

During World War II, Prince Sergei Romanovsky’s parents were slaughtered and the family jewels stolen by a Red Army sergeant. Romanovsky escaped, changed his identity and became one of the most feared men in the Soviet bloc: Vadim Vinnick, powerful head of the Romanian intelligence service.

Now Vinnick is dying and wants to make a deal with AXE: critical information about Soviet operations in exchange for revenge. Nick Carter’s job: find Boris Glaskov, the man who butchered Vinni’ck’s family, and retrieve the Heartstone, the priceless bloodred Romanovsky ruby. But Glaskov has killed before for the sake of the gem — and he would find it a pleasure to add Agent N3 to his list of victims...