Ten people are dead so the presidency can be theirs. The eleventh is the kill one of them won't make.
A political career is rising in Colorado — consulting firm to Senate campaign to vice presidency to a presidency arriving ahead of schedule. To the public, it looks like ambition and timing. Behind the surface, every obstacle has been removed with the quiet precision of an intelligence operation. Because that's exactly what it is.
A campaign consultant in a single-car accident. A financial investigator at his desk. A journalist found dead on the trail where he ran every morning at dawn. The methods are undetectable. The political career advances on schedule.
Then the next directive comes — and the agent who has executed every previous order says no. Not to this target. To any further targets. The first operational refusal in the network's history.
Mercury orders terminal protocols. Forty-eight hours. The agent who runs the operation has to choose between the man who has been her oldest ally and the handler who has been her god. As she searches for an alternative, she discovers what she has refused to see for two decades: alternatives have existed all along. She just hadn't looked. Because looking meant questioning Mercury — and questioning Mercury was the one thing none of them had ever done.
The path to the presidency continues. The pact that built it is fracturing. And the handler running them all from a building whose address exists in no directory has begun to suspect that his most successful asset is no longer entirely his.
The pact was built to survive anything except one of them looking. The Ascent is Book Three of The Sleeper Network — the novel where the agent who runs the operations begins to look, and the handler who runs them all begins to notice she is looking.
Genre: Thriller
A political career is rising in Colorado — consulting firm to Senate campaign to vice presidency to a presidency arriving ahead of schedule. To the public, it looks like ambition and timing. Behind the surface, every obstacle has been removed with the quiet precision of an intelligence operation. Because that's exactly what it is.
A campaign consultant in a single-car accident. A financial investigator at his desk. A journalist found dead on the trail where he ran every morning at dawn. The methods are undetectable. The political career advances on schedule.
Then the next directive comes — and the agent who has executed every previous order says no. Not to this target. To any further targets. The first operational refusal in the network's history.
Mercury orders terminal protocols. Forty-eight hours. The agent who runs the operation has to choose between the man who has been her oldest ally and the handler who has been her god. As she searches for an alternative, she discovers what she has refused to see for two decades: alternatives have existed all along. She just hadn't looked. Because looking meant questioning Mercury — and questioning Mercury was the one thing none of them had ever done.
The path to the presidency continues. The pact that built it is fracturing. And the handler running them all from a building whose address exists in no directory has begun to suspect that his most successful asset is no longer entirely his.
The pact was built to survive anything except one of them looking. The Ascent is Book Three of The Sleeper Network — the novel where the agent who runs the operations begins to look, and the handler who runs them all begins to notice she is looking.
Genre: Thriller
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