Savage Son (Book 3)

*Savage Son* is the third book of Jack Carr's thriller series around his protagonist James Reece.

## Story

### The Hastings' Farm

TODO

After Katie flies in from Washington D.C., she and Reece are finally reunited. Acknowledging their feelings for each other, they spend some time (and nights) together at James' cottage on the Hastings' Farm and meet the Hastings, Liz and Tim Thornton.

In the meantime, Grey with the help of MOBBOSS Kharkov prepares to have Reece and Raife assassinated by a group of bratva gangsters under the leadership of Vitya and Dimitry Mashkov. On his next drive to town with Katie, a group under Vitya try to ambush Reece with the help of Tanya while another group led by Dimitry Mashkov is supposed to take out Raife. Their plan is leaked to the CIA by Alexandr Zharkov via prior Chief of Station Russia NAME. Vic Rodriguez is able to contact Reece seconds before the ambush and he is able to escape back to the Farmhouse. As they cannot reach Raife - who left his radio behind while hunting for a stag - Reece leaves Katie with the Hastings, Liz and Tim and drives off to save Raife together with Jonathan Hastings and his dog DOGNAME. Raife is ambushed by the Russian gangsters but manages to get behind cover and shoots multiple of him over long distance with his Colt 1911 .45 pistole. Right as he is getting flanked, Reece arrives in the valley and takes out three thugs approaching Raife. When Reece himself ends up getting pushed and shot in the calf by the remaining two Russians, Jonathan arrives and kills both of them with his FAL.

Back at the farm, Caroline and company arm themselves in preparation for an attack by the group of Russians who originally were supposed to ambush Reece. Once they arrive in a stolen Pickup, Caroline first takes out the driver and subsequently all of the others but three, one of whom is able to sneak around the house. The last survivor is killed by Liz - subsequently saving Katie who did not manage to use her weapon in time. Reese, Raife and Jonathan arrive in their cars to finish of the last two of the attackers.

Interrogation of surviving Russian by James in Tims cottage before police arrives

Hastings notice that Hanna Hastings is not responding to their calls from Romania.

Raife travels to Romania to find out Hanna was kidnapped. He discovers a Dark Net address and login left by the kidnappers and chases them to ISLAND where Alexander Zherkov already hunted and tried to kill Hanna who - in a last act of defiance - throws herself off a cliff to die on her own terms.

Reece travels to the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virgina to convince Vic Rodriguez to mount a rescue mission. When he arrives, Vic has already organized two options for the mission, one DELTA Team and one SEAL Team. Reece travels to the DELTA teams training facility, awaiting the mission to be green-light by the president.

When President Grimes chief of staff Payne denies the rescue operation (and subsequently sells them out to the Russians via lobbyist and Russian spy Grant Larue), Reece goes of the books to rescue Raife and Hannah with a team of his Ex-Special-Forces friends: Eli, Sean "Farkus" Fleming, Devan Blanding (with Edo) and Lawrence "Chavez" Chiaverini.

Alexandr Zharkov is on Medley Island protected by a group of Wagner Group PMCs under Karyavin Vasilievich. While Reece's team takes off in Thorn's Gulfstream G550 private jet, Alexandr seems to have captured Raife and leaves him with the head of his dead sister in preparation to hunting him the next day.

In the night, Reece and his team insert into Medley Island via HAHO-Jump from Thorn's plane. Alexandr's team detects them and disables their electronic equipment (NODs, communication) via an EMP. The Russian PMCs - equipped with American M4s and NODs - prepare an ambush for Reeces team.

Reece's team regroups after the landing and patrols towards Alexandr's base - walking into the Russians' ambush. Reece takes a sniper round into his plate carrier and the team retreats behind a ridgeline. Reece flanks the Russians and uses his sniper rifle to take them out while his team lights the night with the flare guns they brought for signaling their exfil plane. Only Karyavin escapes him, trying to retreat back to base. Chasing him, he takes out WHO? with a grenade and gets taken out by Edo. The team reaches and breaches Alexandr's compound, finding his African prisoners and Hanna's head.

In the meantime, Alexandr released Raife and chases him with ALEXANDRS HELPER and his dogs.

Reece kills Alexandr's dogs and then his HELPER in hand-to-hand-combat.

He saves Raife - who fell down a cliff wrestling with Alexandr - moments before he would have been executed by shooting Alexandr with a bow.

They race to the extraction point where they meet Jonathan, who stayed behind when the others left via Thorns swimming plane.

They are exfild by a SEAL team sent by Vic Rodriquez.

Reece stays behind and hikes through Siberia for six months (?) in order to kill Grey and Ivan. He ambushes them in Ivan's cottage in PLACE, kills all their guards and confronts them. After receiving his father's watch from Grey, he blows him up. He then comes to an understanding with Ivan to get brought out of country and in exchange being a contact in the CIA.

In the epilog, Reece finds a letter from his father which's content is not revealed.