Discover The Buried Conspiracy
Book Eight of the Gripping Jack Mercer Series
Franklin Cole—the man who killed Jack Mercer’s first wife and three children—has been extracted from prison again. Now in Geneva, he’s bait in Thomas Calder’s plan to destroy the ISR Council using congressional hearings, compromised law firms, and bureaucratic power. But a former German intelligence officer is running a second conspiracy from inside the very organization Jack is trying to protect.
While Jack fights across three countries, Elena wages financial espionage from Scotland, Hawk joins a former Russian operative in an assault above Lake Geneva, and Owen and Maren survive a deadly train ambush. With two conspiracies closing in and danger reaching their home in Cornwall, Jack’s family faces its most personal battle yet. The enemy is inside. The family refuses to break.
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The Buried Conspiracy
The man who killed Jack Mercer’s first wife and three children has been extracted from a federal prison for the second time. Two guards sedated. Russian misdirection planted at the scene. A charter waiting on a private airstrip. By the time the family wakes in Cornwall — wedding dishes still drying, Hawk married four hours ago, Elena eight months pregnant — Franklin Cole is already in Geneva, sitting across from the intelligence broker who bought him.
Thomas Calder doesn’t want Cole for what he knows. He wants Cole for what he represents: bait designed to pull Jack into the open while Calder dismantles the ISR Council through the weapons he spent thirty years mastering — congressional hearings, compromised law firms, and the bureaucratic machinery that kills more quietly than bullets.
But Calder isn’t the only enemy. A former German intelligence officer is running a parallel conspiracy from inside the ISR itself, coercing analysts and targeting the Cornwall house where a nineteen-month-old girl says four words and an artist patrols the coastal path with a Glock that was a wedding gift.
Jack — former Force Recon captain and covert intelligence operative — fights across three countries while Elena wages financial espionage from a Scottish kitchen table. Hawk and a former Russian special forces operator assault a château above Lake Geneva. Owen and Maren survive an ambush on a train. And a mathematician who never fired a weapon picks up a pistol from a corridor floor.
This fast-paced international military thriller has two fronts, two conspiracies, and one family that refuses to break.
The Characters
- Jack Mercer – Former Force Recon captain and covert intelligence operative drawn into a deadly trap targeting his family and the ISR Council.
- Elena Markham – Brilliant financial intelligence operative who continues fighting from a Scottish kitchen table while eight months pregnant.
- Hawk Hawkins – Former special forces operator newly married and forced back into combat when the conspiracy reaches his family.
- Franklin Cole – The man responsible for killing Jack’s first wife and three children, extracted from prison and used as bait in a larger conspiracy.
- Thomas Calder – An intelligence broker who weaponizes congressional hearings, compromised law firms, and bureaucracy to destroy the ISR Council from within.
The Plot
- The Prison Extraction – Franklin Cole is extracted from federal prison and delivered to Geneva, where an intelligence broker prepares to use him as bait for Jack.
- The Inside Conspiracy – Two separate conspiracies emerge within the intelligence world, threatening the ISR Council from both outside and inside.
- The Family Under Siege – While Jack fights across Europe, an enemy targets the Cornwall home, forcing his family to defend themselves.
- The European War – Jack, Hawk, Elena, Owen, and their allies fight across Geneva, France, and Britain as ambushes and covert operations escalate.
- The Fight for the ISR Council – With political manipulation and intelligence warfare replacing conventional weapons, Jack must expose both conspiracies before his family and the entire organization collapse.
