The Shadow Protocol PART 1: The Ghost at the Gate The wind off the Severn River had teeth, the kind of damp, biting…
THE SOLDIER IN THE KITCHEN PART 1 The walls of our apartment in Cypress Gardens were thin enough that I had memorized the…
THE WOLF IN THE ROOM PART 1 The laughter didn’t sting. That was the first thing people usually got wrong about me. They…
PART 1 The heavy steel door of Storage Room 12 clicked shut with a finality that echoed in the small, concrete space. The…
The Ghost of Zabul: When Silence Speaks Louder PART 1 I just wanted a glass of water. That was the mission. It wasn’t…
THE INVISIBLE COMMANDER PART 1 The C-17 Globemaster touched down at Marshall Army Airfield forty minutes before the sun bled over the Kansas…
THE WEIGHT OF THE GREEN JACKET PART 1 Three years. That’s one thousand and ninety-five days of pretending I’m whole. The fluorescent lights…
The Fracture Point PART 1 The sound of a human bone snapping is distinct. It doesn’t sound like a gunshot, despite what people…
THE GHOST IN THE MISSILE BAY PART 1 The smell of a submarine is something you never truly scrub from your pores. It’s…
The Revenant’s Balance PART 1 The coffee in my mug was instant, black, and bitter enough to strip the enamel off a tank.…