SOURCE TWELVE

A source is dead. His reports keep coming.Faryab Province, Afghanistan, 2010. Norwegian observer Elias Lund and spotter Mikkel Sæther have one job: decide whether the man below them is Farid Qadiri. Another source says the identification is confirmed. Mikkel says not yet.Then Qadiri warns them not to trust the source.Hours later, Source Twelve is found dead. The reporting under his name does not stop.What began as a target-identification mission becomes a live intelligence failure built from compromised source chains, misattributed photographs, transport networks, and roads that have to be used before anyone can prove they are safe. A detainee may be telling the truth for reasons of his own. Two men may have been collapsed into one file. Every new report can clarify the picture-or make it more dangerous.As a reinforcement movement waits on assessments nobody can make with certainty, Elias and Mikkel must separate what they saw from what they inferred before uncertainty becomes an order.SOURCE TWELVE is a grounded espionage thriller about surveillance, HUMINT, deception, and decisions made before certainty arrives.