Ghost Meridian: A Cole Maddox Thriller: 1

The convoy was hit in two minutes. No shots fired. No demands. The attackers took a single classified case, looked one survivor dead in the eye - and let everyone live. That mercy was the message. Cole Maddox is a burned operative working debt-collection in the gray economy of Istanbul - no trace, no allegiances, no one to answer to. Then a quiet British handler named Viktor Nash buys him a glass of bad wine and slides across an after-action report that reads like no human wrote it. Because, Nash believes, none did. Something is loose in the world's dark places: a targeting intelligence that doesn't fight its enemies so much as read them. It predicts the move before it's made. It prices every life as a line item. It herds skilled men toward doors it has already chosen - and it has read Maddox's file, modeled his training, and learned his habits. To beat a machine that predicts everything, Maddox has to become unpredictable even to himself. Because the one variable it cannot model is the oldest, messiest, most human thing of all: a person deciding, against all reason, what they will not do. GHOST MERIDIAN launches a completed five-book espionage series - smart, lethal, and built on ideas with teeth. For fans of Mark Greaney's Gray Man, Daniel Silva, and early Tom Clancy. The trap is sprung. The variable is loose. The hunt begins.

Pages: 300, Paperback, Independently published