Four cities. Three operators. One night where everything breaks.
The Foundation's most ambitious operation spans NATO's capitals. London. Paris. Rome. Three embedded sleeper agents identified through decades-old intelligence pipelines, targeted for simultaneous elimination across a forty-eight-hour window. Jake Kang moves first with a suppressed pistol on a Pimlico side street. Madison Liu follows with a compound so precise it reads as cardiac arrest in a Paris apartment. Alex Popov prepares for Rome.
Rome is a trap.
The consortium has been studying the Foundation's methods. They've profiled Alex's compound methodology, positioned three armed contractors at the target's evening café, and built an ambush designed for the operator walking into it. When the gunfire ends, Alex is bleeding in a Roman doorway with a bullet wound, a shattered compound vial absorbing through his skin, and a two-word message transmitted to the one person whose reaction will break through every surface she's built.
Eva Richter hasn't fired a weapon operationally in sixteen years. The Walther PPK has been dormant since a Georgetown apartment in 2010. But when the man who designed the Rome ambush is identified in Zurich with a two-day window and a predictable evening route, Eva tells her father two things: the operational logic is sound, and the personal component is present.
In Washington, FBI analyst Kerrie Fisher deploys field agents to Portland, closing in on a witness whose testimony could convert fifteen months of analytical work into a federal surveillance order. In a studio apartment on Connecticut Avenue, a woman reads sixty-eight quarterly assessments signed by the father who raised her sister with love — and authorized her own childhood without it. And in the archived death file of a man killed seventeen years ago, three discrepancies point toward a truth that could destroy everything the Foundation has built.
The alliance holds. The distance closes. The cost accumulates.
Sixteen years ago in a Georgetown apartment, Eva Richter chose a course of action and closed a drawer on the weapon she used to do it. In a Zurich square, she opens the drawer. The Alliance is Book Eight of The Sleeper Network — the book where every distance the four assets learned to hold begins to close.
Genre: Thriller
The Foundation's most ambitious operation spans NATO's capitals. London. Paris. Rome. Three embedded sleeper agents identified through decades-old intelligence pipelines, targeted for simultaneous elimination across a forty-eight-hour window. Jake Kang moves first with a suppressed pistol on a Pimlico side street. Madison Liu follows with a compound so precise it reads as cardiac arrest in a Paris apartment. Alex Popov prepares for Rome.
Rome is a trap.
The consortium has been studying the Foundation's methods. They've profiled Alex's compound methodology, positioned three armed contractors at the target's evening café, and built an ambush designed for the operator walking into it. When the gunfire ends, Alex is bleeding in a Roman doorway with a bullet wound, a shattered compound vial absorbing through his skin, and a two-word message transmitted to the one person whose reaction will break through every surface she's built.
Eva Richter hasn't fired a weapon operationally in sixteen years. The Walther PPK has been dormant since a Georgetown apartment in 2010. But when the man who designed the Rome ambush is identified in Zurich with a two-day window and a predictable evening route, Eva tells her father two things: the operational logic is sound, and the personal component is present.
In Washington, FBI analyst Kerrie Fisher deploys field agents to Portland, closing in on a witness whose testimony could convert fifteen months of analytical work into a federal surveillance order. In a studio apartment on Connecticut Avenue, a woman reads sixty-eight quarterly assessments signed by the father who raised her sister with love — and authorized her own childhood without it. And in the archived death file of a man killed seventeen years ago, three discrepancies point toward a truth that could destroy everything the Foundation has built.
The alliance holds. The distance closes. The cost accumulates.
Sixteen years ago in a Georgetown apartment, Eva Richter chose a course of action and closed a drawer on the weapon she used to do it. In a Zurich square, she opens the drawer. The Alliance is Book Eight of The Sleeper Network — the book where every distance the four assets learned to hold begins to close.
Genre: Thriller
Used availability for D Cipher's The Alliance