Scot Harvath

Scot Harvath is a skilled and experienced American intelligence operative, who works for the independent contractor the Carlton Group. Due to Harvath's determination, and also his fearlessness when it comes to working in ethical gray areas, Harvath is the leader of the American operation to disrupt the Russians' attempts to trigger a global war. Harvath both successfully completes steps of the mission on his own, such as when he individually tracks down a Russian operative in the Norwegian forest, and as the leader of a small, elite team, who work in concert to monitor and then capture Steffan Sparrman in Gotland.

In the most crucial phase of the mission, however, Harvath commits a crucial error, allowing himself to be lured by himself into a forested park in Kaliningrad, where he is captured by a group of Tretyakov's men, who had been posing as civilians. The mission is...