Wow.  This reads just like a James Bond movie.  But Flynn is just the small fish.  007 knows that the real quarry is nothing less than the megalomaniac Octopussy (sound familiar?).  But like most of the Bond movies there's always a sinister uber-villian manipulating things behind the scenes that's never caught - in this case Putin & his dwarf henchman Bannon. 

This is gonna make one helluva book (or series) when the first whistleblower spills it.