Covert action thrillers · 6 books
The Apex Directive
No backup. No authority. No choice but to act.
Apex Strategic Solutions appears on no government payroll and in no intelligence database. Six operatives who answer to no agency and follow no flag, bound not by orders but by principle.
Six books across two arcs: the Consortium embedded inside Western intelligence, and the Syndicate that fills the vacuum when it falls. Relentless pace, real tradecraft, and a team that argues about ethics between firefights.
For readers of Clive Cussler, Brad Thor, and Lee Child.
The books in order
Book 1 of 6
Ghost Meridian
Three minutes to catastrophe. Six operatives who don't exist. The container ship Ghost Meridian is drifting without power toward a petroleum dock in Hamburg harbor, 180,000 tons aimed at fuel tanks that will turn the port into an inferno. Every failsafe has been compromised. The authorities are helpless.
Book 2 of 6
Pale Summit
Forty years of treason. Seventy-two hours to expose it. One traitor who will kill to keep his secrets buried. Richard Ashworth has survived four decades in the CIA by trusting his instincts. Right now his instincts are screaming.
Book 3 of 6
Black Sun
A village burns. Three hundred people executed in fifteen minutes. A nine-year-old girl hiding in a root cellar while her mother dies three feet above her. This is how empires are built.
Book 4 of 6
Iron Tide
A dead cargo ship in the North Sea. A bullet in a teammate's spine. And a criminal network that doesn't know the hunt has started. When the MV Iron Tide goes dark in a winter storm, the crew vanishes and the cargo disappears into a supply chain that shouldn't exist.
Book 5 of 6
Crimson Protocol
The signal was a lie told in fourteen languages. Three weeks of peeling back encryption and proxy servers, and the architecture of the deception is beautiful. Beautiful and dangerous, because it leads to the Syndicate's most elusive strategist, and he has done something the team did not anticipate.
Book 6 of 6
Fallen Wall
They came for the Hangar on a Thursday night, and the people inside were not supposed to survive.
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