The novel “Ghosts” by Mark Dawson was published for the first time in 2014. It’s the fourth book in the John Milton series and follows “The Driver”.

In Texas, John Milton gets into trouble when he decides to intervene with a pair of bullies, one of whom turns out to be the local sheriff’s son. He knows he has very little time to escape from the prison where he’s been held before his former colleagues come for him, and is surprised when he ends up in the custody of an FBI agent instead.

When the two of them leave, the woman reveals that she’s actually a Russian intelligence agent and knows John Milton’s real identity. Her Russian superiors want him to do some work for them, and, in exchange, offer him the life of Captain Michael Pope, a man who saved John’s life and is now a Russian prisoner. To save Pope, John must find Beatrix Rose, who used to be Number One in Group Fifteen years earlier, until Control betrayed her.