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Book Seven of the Gripping Jack Mercer Series
The man who killed Jack Mercer’s wife and three children has just escaped federal prison—and two guards are dead. Franklin Cole, a former intelligence operative with sixty-three deaths on his list, is now trading secrets to a woman inside the CIA who wants to dismantle the covert network protecting Jack’s team. Jack tracks Cole across America, fighting the urge to turn surveillance into revenge.
Meanwhile, Elena Markham battles a financial espionage network that has been turned against her, while a CIA program rebuilds a weaponized model of her mind. Across Scotland, Belgrade, and Washington, Jack’s allies uncover a conspiracy buried inside the institution meant to protect them. This time, the enemy doesn’t hide in the shadows. He has a government badge.
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The Last Archive
The man who killed Jack Mercer’s wife and three children just walked out of a federal prison. Two guards are dead. The facility is burning. And the woman who extracted him is the CIA’s Deputy Director of Operations.
Franklin Cole doesn’t carry guilt. He carries a list — sixty-three names, sixty-three deaths he authorized across a thirty-year intelligence career. The Mercer family is line forty-seven. Now Cole is trading secrets to a woman who wants to dismantle the covert network protecting Jack’s team, and she’s doing it from inside the institution that’s supposed to be on their side.
Jack — former Force Recon captain and intelligence operative — tracks Cole from Arlington to New York to a Boston brownstone, fighting the discipline it takes to surveil the man instead of killing him. Elena Markham wages a different war from a kitchen table in Scotland — her own financial espionage network has been turned against her by a dead man’s code, exposing protected assets across three continents. She’s breaking into her own system to stop it while a CIA behavioral prediction program rebuilds the model of her mind.
Hawk Hawkins walks into a Belgrade garage and asks a former enemy to fight beside him. Owen Mercer meets three heads of state to deliver a truth that could topple governments. And a seventeen-year-old with his dead father’s watch sits at a terminal in an abandoned compound, dismantling a weapon built by the man who raised him.
The conspiracy comes from inside the institution this time. The special forces training won’t help. The espionage is personal. And the most dangerous international thriller in the series is the one where the enemy has a government badge.
The Characters
- Jack Mercer – Former Force Recon captain and intelligence operative hunting the man responsible for his family’s murder.
- Franklin Cole – Former intelligence operative responsible for 63 deaths, including Jack’s wife and children, who now holds secrets capable of exposing the CIA.
- Elena Markham – Financial espionage expert whose own intelligence network has been compromised and turned against her.
- Hawk Hawkins – Former special forces operator who recruits a former enemy to help fight a threat from inside the intelligence community.
- Owen Mercer – Operative tasked with confronting world leaders and delivering evidence that could destabilize governments.
The Plot
- The Prison Escape – Franklin Cole escapes federal prison after two guards are killed, leaving the facility in flames and triggering Jack’s hunt.
- The Inside Conspiracy – Jack discovers that the threat is coming from within the intelligence institution meant to protect his team.
- The Family Revenge – Jack tracks Cole across America while struggling to keep his mission from becoming an act of revenge.
- The Broken Network – Elena’s financial espionage system is compromised, exposing protected assets across three continents.
- The Government War – Hawk, Owen, and Jack are drawn into separate operations involving former enemies, world leaders, and covert intelligence networks.
