- Genre:fiction
- Sub-genre:Thrillers / General
- Language:English
- Pages:400
- eBook ISBN:9781098361440
- Paperback ISBN:9781098361433
Book details
Overview
The towers fall. A ghost rises.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, America’s most classified operation is triggered. A former Special Forces soldier — haunted, hardened, and living off the grid — is pulled from the chaos and given a mission that will erase everything he ever was. His target: Osama Bin Laden. His cover: death.
Partnered with an elite CIA operative as dangerous as she is brilliant, Scott Walsh crosses into a world of shadows — from the shattered streets of New York to ancient capitals and unforgiving deserts where one wrong move means oblivion. Their pasts are landmines. Their mission is impossible. And somewhere between survival and sacrifice, something neither of them planned begins to ignite.
Operation Hawk’s Nest is a thunderous, globe-spanning thriller about what happens when one man’s ghost becomes America’s last hope.
Description
The armies will come. The politics will follow. The window will close.
So they send one man.
9/11. The towers are still burning. And somewhere in the highest levels of the U.S. government, a decision is already being made — not in a war room, not by a committee, not with the machinery of a superpower.
One man. No unit. No backup. No footprint.
Because a lone operator is the hardest thing on earth to find. That works both ways.
Scott Walsh is a former Special Forces soldier living invisibly, in the shadows of the World Trade Center. On the morning of the attacks, he was supposed to be inside one of those towers. He wasn’t. That accident of fate makes him something more valuable than a soldier — it makes him a ghost. A man the world can believe is dead.
He is pulled from the wreckage and handed a mission that doesn’t officially exist: find Osama Bin Laden before the dust settles and the politics begin. Vanish completely — even from his own children. Move alone through the world’s most dangerous places, leaving nothing behind.
No army could do this. No task force could stay hidden long enough.
One man can.
His only lifeline is a brilliant CIA operative whose own history is buried under layers of classified files — a woman who has learned to trust no one, now betting everything on a single operator she can’t afford to lose. What grows between them was never part of the plan. It complicates everything. And it may be the only thing that keeps Walsh alive.
The mission takes him across the globe — through shadowy capitals, vast mountain ranges, open deserts, and the gray zones where governments act without fingerprints. Every step brings him closer to his target. Every step pulls him deeper into a web of deception that reaches all the way back to Washington.
Because the people who sent him have their own agenda.
And Walsh is beginning to understand that the most dangerous enemy may not be the one he was sent to kill.
Operation Hawk's Nest is a propulsive international thriller of espionage, sacrifice, deception, and the personal costs of the war that followed 9/11. Emotionally charged and relentlessly paced, it asks what a nation—and one man—is willing to sacrifice in the pursuit of justice.
