Information can be a dangerous thing. So can trust. Eight years after a devastating betrayal wiped out Task Force 7, Ted Anderson is the last survivor. The mission that exterminated his team--a nuclear accident at Area 51 disguised as a training exercise--still haunts him, and the weight of it all threatens to crush him. Once a lethal soldier, he now finds himself a broken man, tormented by guilt and struggling to make sense of a world that has moved on without him.
Rebuilding his life in Boston, Ted encounters Jennifer and Samantha, part of a tight-knit group of young professionals who offer him a glimmer of redemption. But the walls he's built are too thick to tear down easily. As he struggles to find his place in a world without war, Ted is forced to confront a brutal truth: Everything they fought for, and everything he lost, was meaningless. Peace came at a terrible price--and now, it's falling apart before his eyes as trade wards begin and NATO disbands.
Reviews:"Ar-feinial infuses his thrilling plot with candid insights about good versus evil, life, death, trust, betrayal, PTSD-related trauma, and what it means to be human while capturing the essence of dirty machinations of politics. The characters are convincingly flawed .
Information can be a dangerous thing. So can trust. Eight years after a devastating betrayal wiped out Task Force 7, Ted Anderson is the last survivor. The mission that exterminated his team--a nuclear accident at Area 51 disguised as a training exercise--still haunts him, and the weight of it all threatens to crush him. Once a lethal soldier, he now finds himself a broken man, tormented by guilt and struggling to make sense of a world that has moved on without him.
Rebuilding his life in Boston, Ted encounters Jennifer and Samantha, part of a tight-knit group of young professionals who offer him a glimmer of redemption. But the walls he's built are too thick to tear down easily. As he struggles to find his place in a world without war, Ted is forced to confront a brutal truth: Everything they fought for, and everything he lost, was meaningless. Peace came at a terrible price--and now, it's falling apart before his eyes as trade wards begin and NATO disbands.
Reviews:"Ar-feinial infuses his thrilling plot with candid insights about good versus evil, life, death, trust, betrayal, PTSD-related trauma, and what it means to be human while capturing the essence of dirty machinations of politics. The characters are convincingly flawed .