The Ghost Protocol

Twenty-four years ago, Captain Thomas Rook discovered that some orders were designed to make murder look like patriotism.He died for what he found.Now his son is being asked to finish the mission.Caleb Rook has spent his adult life believing his father died a hero during a classified recovery operation. At thirty-two, he is recruited into the Ghost Initiative — an elite unit that operates in the spaces between official records, where the only rule is that nothing can be traced back to the people who give the orders.Then a stranger appears with a photograph that should not exist.The image shows Thomas Rook alive on the day he was supposed to have died alone. With it comes a single handwritten line: He was not alone.As Caleb and his team dig into the classified history of Operation Liberty, they uncover a trail of altered reports, vanished witnesses, and a program that has been erasing people for decades. Every mission they complete seems to close one door and open another. Every clean report hides a cost that was never recorded.The deeper they go, the clearer it becomes that the Ghost Protocol was never designed to protect the country.It was designed to protect the people who decided who got to survive it.The Ghost Protocol is a relentless conspiracy thriller about loyalty, inherited secrets, and the price of a clean official record.