A pulse-pounding yet soulful espionage thriller for fans of Brad Thor, Jack Carr, and Mark Greaney, delivering plot twists so explosive, it took two top suspense writers to pull it off.

Soldier-turned-sommelier Chase Burke may have traded his rifle for bottles of wine, but violence and conspiracy aren’t through with him yet. First, his intelligence analyst brother is killed in a covert op gone wrong and branded a traitor. Then a brutal ambush at the restaurant where Chase works leaves the woman he is romantically involved with—a congresswoman—clinging to life.

Scrambling to clear the family name and protect his secret love, Chase teams up with NYPD Detective Alice Doyle, a single mother fighting battles of her own. Together they uncover a powerful criminal syndicate whose unscrupulous influence sweeps the globe—and strikes painfully close to home.

As elite mercenaries close in, Chase is dragged back into the dangerous world he thought he’d escaped. Facing a mother losing her memory and a past that never forgets, he fights to win a zero-sum game where trust can be lethal. But when all seems lost, an unlikely ally could help turn the tide…

Simon Gervais is a former infantry officer and federal agent specializing in counterterrorism who served in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, safeguarding dignitaries like Queen Elizabeth II and President Barack Obama. Now a bestselling thriller writer, Gervais is the author of The Elias Network and The Elias Enigma, as well as the Clayton White and Pierce Hunt series—all optioned for TV. He also penned The Blackbriar Genesis for the Robert Ludlum estate. Learn more at http://SimonGervaisBooks.com.

Ryan Steck is the author of Fields of Fire, Lethal Range, Redd Christmas, Out for Blood, and Ted Bell’s Monarch, an Alex Hawke thriller. He’s also the founder and editor in chief of The Real Book Spy website and an official Amazon Influencer. Praised as “one of the hardest-working and fairest reviewers out there” (author Lisa Scottoline), Steck is considered by some as “the authority on mysteries and thrillers” (author A. J. Tata). Steck’s fourth Matthew Redd novel, Gone Dark, is due out in 2025.