"Someone's working their way through New York's Russian mob with an AK-47. Someone who isn't the Punisher. When Frank Castle goes looking for the killer, he finds a strange little man with a ready smile and a need for revenge that matches his own. For thirty years and ten thousand miles, Valery Stepanovich has been hunting the betrayer of his comrades--from the mountains of Afghanistan to the underworld of a decaying Russia, and now to the streets of New York City. But his is no ordinary tale of injustice. For what happened to Fifth Company, Soviet Guards Airborne Division in the high country south of Kabul was a nightmare beyond description, a war story turned to bloody horror in an unimaginable explosion of atrocity. There is work to be done. There are men who cannot be allowed to live. But as Stepanovich's mission stirs an old anger in Frank Castle's heart, the Punisher finds himself closer to his limits than ever before--and ready for a decision he can never walk away from."--Provided by publisher.