Hard Target

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Book Three of the Gripping Mason Cole Series

For fifteen years, a powerful man has hidden behind a fortress carved into the Albanian coast, where people erased from every official list are kept out of sight. Mason Cole has already destroyed two of his facilities. This one was built specifically to stop him.

His enemy knows Cole’s methods because she’s faced him three times—and survived each encounter. Now Cole must breach an apparently impossible fortress, rescue the prisoners, and convince himself that one final door will end the war. But the fortress was the easy part. The real fight is only beginning.

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The Fortress Was The Easy Part

He hasn’t opened his own door in fifteen years. He has people for that.
Twice a year he flies down to the Albanian coast in a Milan-tailored jacket and walks what he calls the production floor.
The production floor is a cliff.
A dictator’s engineers cut it into the limestone two generations ago. He’s spent a fortune improving it since. One way in. A long way down. And at the bottom, people who don’t appear on any list in any country that once swore to come for them.
Mason Cole has cost this man two of these places already.
That’s why this one exists.
It was built by someone who has stood close enough to Cole to feel him breathe — three times now — and walked away learning something every time. She knows how he thinks. She knows what he’ll try. She’s already put a wall in front of it.
There’s no clever way into that rock. Cole knows it. He’s going anyway.
And he’s telling himself the same thing he’s told himself for a year: open the last door, bring them home, and it’s over.
It isn’t over.
It’s barely started.
The fortress was the easy part.
HARD TARGET is the explosive third 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 – Relentless intelligence operative determined to breach an Albanian fortress and bring the imprisoned people home.
The Fortress Owner – A wealthy and powerful figure who has built an isolated prison on the Albanian coast to hold people who officially do not exist.
The Female Adversary – A dangerous operative who has confronted Cole three times and studied his methods closely enough to anticipate his moves.
The Imprisoned Survivors – People erased from official records and held inside the fortress as part of a covert international operation.
The Fortress Engineers – Specialists who transformed a limestone cliff into an almost impenetrable underground facility with a single controlled entrance.

The Plot

The Albanian Fortress – Mason Cole targets a hidden prison carved into the Albanian coast where prisoners have been erased from every official record.
The Production Floor – Behind the fortress walls, powerful interests maintain a covert operation built around people governments have abandoned.
The Perfect Countermeasure – Cole’s most dangerous adversary has studied his previous operations and designed the fortress specifically to defeat his methods.
The Impossible Infiltration – With no easy route into the mountain, Cole must find a way through a fortress designed to keep everyone out.
The Beginning of the War – Cole believes the extraction will be his final mission, only to discover that breaking into the fortress was merely the first move.