Red Justice

There are men you send in when diplomacy fails.

Cain Taggert comes after them.

The world doesn’t end with fire. It ends with silence—the kind that falls over a compound five minutes after midnight, just before the first throat is slit.

Cain Taggert doesn’t wear a uniform. He doesn’t salute flags. He doesn’t believe in countries anymore.

He believes in balance.

And blood.

There’s a rhythm to what he does. Like jazz played with a bone saw. Quiet entry, clean exits, bodies left like punctuation.

He doesn’t ask questions. He asks for names.

Then he erases them.

He’s the ghost bureaucrats whisper about in dark rooms when the mission is too dirty, too sensitive, too far from lawful to ever admit.

He’s what the government calls when plausible deniability needs a trigger man.

And now, five soldiers are chained in the dirt, live on satellite feed, counting down to execution. Politicians are scrambling. Generals are stammering. Every suit in D.C. wants answers—none of them want truth.

Because truth comes with names.

And Taggert is coming for all of them.

He’s not here to make arrests. He’s not here to negotiate. He’s not here for redemption.

He’s here to paint the mountains red.