Bleed Out: Dead Collateral
Three years of silence. Forty-five minutes to break it. Cole Asher doesn't exist. Not officially. The former black-ops contractor vanished from the world of organized violence after a single operation went wrong — an operation that left a journalist dead and a boy without a father. Now he sits in a Berlin cafe, watching a feed of lethal transactions, and does nothing. Until a locker activates...
Silent Strings: Dead Collateral
They know his guilt. They've measured his love. They think they can break him. Cole Asher is being read. Not watched — read. Someone inside the Escrow intelligence network has built a file on him. A specification. Four pages of clinical precision that describe his combat capabilities, his psychological vulnerabilities, the exact architecture of his guilt — and the truth about the death that c...
Decoy: Dead Collateral
A man described. A system dismantled. A boy saved. And a fort that never fell. Cole Asher has intercepted four Escrow artifacts across four European cities. Each contained a page of a specification file — a clinical dissection of his psychology, his habits, his guilt. Now, in Stuttgart, he discovers the fifth page. It predicts his every move. And it's right. Inside the warehouse of K. Weiss ...
The Doha Triangulation: The Vienna Weight
In the shadowy corridors of international diplomacy, the truth is not what happened — it's what the institution decides to publish. Yasmin Daryaee has spent seven years as a Verification Officer at the Treaty Verification Office in Vienna, quietly evaluating the evidence behind global cyber-attacks. Her latest file, Doha-118, is different. The United Arab Emirates claims Israel sabotaged their...
The Astana Cold: The Vienna Weight
In a system built on truth, the greatest lie is the institution itself. Deputy Director Yasmin Daryaee thought leaving Vienna for the brutal, minus-twenty-degree winter of Astana would bring clarity. Instead, she has stepped directly into the heart of a global conspiracy. Alongside elite cyber-forensic analyst Mariam Em Aliyeva, Yasmin uncovers a terrifying reality: the international Treaty V...
The Helsinki Weight: The Vienna Weight
The legacy of a spy is the silence they leave behind. Yasmin Daryaee has mastered the art of the unsaid. Stationed in the freezing, remote outpost of Astana for the Treaty Verification Office, she watches the silence of her superiors with clinical precision. But when a sealed envelope left by her late father is activated by her recent transfer, the carefully constructed firewall of her life be...