Metal Viper

A 12-year-old writes a gentle poem. His regime sentences him to death. For fans of Daniel Silva, Brad Thor, and John le Carré - a high-stakes international thriller grounded in one of today's most urgent human rights crises.In Myanmar, ruled by a military junta that kills without mercy, hope itself is a crime. When twelve-year-old VIKA's simple poem about hope goes viral, the regime arrests him - and sentences the child to death for treason. The uproar reaches KAE ZHANG, leader of Article 5, an elite international organization that has fought torture and political repression in the world's most dangerous places. Now Kae and her team must do the impossible: extract one child from the heart of a military-criminal empire - while being hunted through the jungle by the junta's most feared weapon. They call him the METAL VIPER.Perfect for readers of international thrillers, human rights fiction, political suspense, Southeast Asia spy novels, female-protagonist action thrillers, and books inspired by real-world authoritarian regimes.Article 5: Kae Zhang Series Book 1 - More books featuring Kae Zhang and the Article 5 team are coming.