First published 2000
Frank Perry stands at the edge of hostile territory, knowing his next steps could trigger an international incident. The veteran intelligence officer has been sent to extract a high-value asset from behind enemy lines, but the mission parameters keep shifting. Local militias patrol the borderlands while his own government maintains plausible deniability about his presence. Perry must navigate tribal loyalties, shifting allegiances, and his own agency's competing agendas. His contacts prove unreliable, his communications compromised, and his extraction window rapidly closing. As violence escalates around him, Perry realizes he may have been deliberately positioned as an expendable piece in a larger geopolitical game. The desert offers no sanctuary, and trust becomes the scarcest commodity of all.
Genres: military-fiction, adventure, suspense, action, espionage, political-thriller
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: expendable-hero, shifting-allegiances, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Borderlands, Desert, Enemy Territory
Period: Contemporary
Audiobook · Recorded Books LLC
Content warnings: violence