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Blood Reckoning
They Came For His People First
Three in the morning. Mason Cole answers the phone and hears gunfire behind the voice.
Somewhere in Istanbul, a friend is bleeding in a stairwell. Somewhere else a list is changing hands — names, safe houses, every person who ever opened a door for Cole and trusted him to close it behind them.
Whoever bought that list paid well.
Whoever sold it knew exactly what it was worth.
Cole tore a hole in the shadow market once. He should have known better than to think it would bleed quietly. It didn’t fold. It didn’t scatter. It went back to school on him — and it started with the only thing he’s never learned to armor.
Now nine more men and women are sitting in cells in Serbia behind walls built by someone who has studied every mistake Cole has ever made. She’s fought him twice. She’s never lost anything she wasn’t willing to trade.
Langley wants him in a cell of its own. The border wants his passport. And the only man who can get him through the wire is wearing a badge that says he should be putting Cole in the ground instead.
Cole is going to reach those cells. He gave his word, and his word is the last thing they haven’t taken from him.
He just isn’t going to arrive whole.
They came for his people first.
They should have finished the job.
BLOOD RECKONING is the blistering second novel in the Mason Cole Thriller Series — relentless, ruthlessly authentic international suspense for readers of Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, and Mark Greaney.
The Characters
- Mason Cole – Former intelligence operative determined to rescue nine people imprisoned because of their connection to him.
- The Female Adversary – A ruthless operative who has fought Cole twice and knows exactly how to exploit his weaknesses.
- The Istanbul Contact – One of Cole’s trusted allies, caught in a violent attack that exposes the existence of the deadly list.
- The Badge-Wearing Ally – A man whose official duty is to arrest Cole but becomes the only person capable of getting him through the border.
- The Nine Captives – Intelligence operatives imprisoned in Serbia after their connection to Cole makes them targets of the shadow market.
The Plot
- The Deadly List – A stolen list containing Cole’s contacts, safe houses, and allies enters the shadow market, putting everyone connected to him in danger.
- The Istanbul Attack – A violent assault on one of Cole’s friends signals that the shadow market has begun targeting Cole’s entire network.
- The Serbian Cells – Nine people are imprisoned behind fortified walls by an enemy who has studied Cole’s previous mistakes.
- The Impossible Crossing – With Langley hunting him and the border closing in, Cole must rely on a man wearing a badge that should make him an enemy.
- The Rescue – Cole enters Serbia to keep his promise to the nine captives, knowing the enemy has designed the entire operation around breaking him.
