Shock Front

“Inside, a lamp flickered in the hallway. Half in shadow, a soaked man lay crumpled against a faded yellow wall. The right hand gripped a Beretta APX, ready to shoot anyone who entered, except that he never would, for this man was dead. The bloody trail from outside led to his corpse. Two bullet holes decorated his chest. There might have been further entry and exit wounds, but the folds of clothes and dim light made it difficult to see. With a honed muscular physique like Pierce, the dead man would have also been a CIA Special Operations Group paramilitary officer like himself. He had just made the ultimate sacrifice, protecting the interests of his country at the cost of his own life.”

Capsule Summary:

CIA Ground Branch operator Mark “Trigger Man” Pierce races through monsoon-soaked India to extract Roshini Jahandar, the defecting wife of a Pakistani intelligence heavyweight. A kill team, a traitorous private military company, and a stolen submarine propeller secret converge into a globe-spanning chase—where every extraction is a trap and the real war is over who controls the data.

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Locations:

Patna, Jharia, Goa and Kolkata (India), Langley, Virginia (USA), Sochi (Russia), Komodo Island (Indonesia), Hindu Kush (Pakistan/Afghanistan)

Allies:

  • Rachel Zang — CIA paramilitary operations officer / Ground Branch operator (CIA)
  • Abdul Ibrahim — Chief, CIA Special Operations Group (CIA)
  • Roshini Jahandar — Lawyer and defector (Independent)
  • Karen Dwyer — Chief, Eastern Europe office (CIA)

Villains:

  • Fawad Jahandar — Assistant Director, Technical Wing (Pakistan Federal Investigation Agency, FIA).
  • Qusay Vali — Head of Operational Intelligence (FIA)
  • Brad Karson (“Black Dog”) — Founder/leader private military contractor (Executive Believers)
  • Jay Sanders — Intelligence executive officer (Executive Believers) and former CIA case officer
  • Kaajal Khan — Regional commander (al-Qaeda).

Major Action Sequences:

Safe house ambush and Ganges bridge shootout (India), coal train and burning mine firefight (India), Beach resort underwater battle (India), Komodo dragon infestation (Indonesia), Insurgent stronghold in Hindu Kush (Pakistan).