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Mandate

(2026)
(The first book in the Black Tide series)
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The mission was deniable. The cost was not.

A president falls. A country opens. And the men who owned it refuse to let go.


When a covert U.S. raid removes Venezuela''s dictator, Washington creates Black Tide — a deniable team with no official name, no safety net, and one brutal mandate: dismantle the criminal intelligence network in Venezuela rising from the wreckage.

Hank Reyes leads the operation. Lena Ibarra sees the battlefield from twelve thousand feet. Cole Briggs and Eddie Cortez work in the streets. Mia Navarro lives inside the enemy’s house.

Their target is not a man.

It is a machine — money, killers, politicians, foreign powers, and a hidden registry that can expose every operator Prada controls.

But the deeper Black Tide cuts, the faster the network learns.

Mandate — Book One of Black Tide. Fast, brutal, and impossible to put down. For readers of Lee Child, Brad Thor, and Jason Matthews.

The Black Tide series — a hard-edged covert thriller series about power, loyalty, and the cost of doing necessary things in the dark.



Genre: Thriller

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