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…
The command came slicked with the easy arrogance of unearned authority, a casual dismissal wrapped in a term of endearment that was anything…
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 wind that swept in from the Pacific always carried weight. It wasn’t a loud wind, not a violent one that tore at…
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…
