The Reckoning

FBI Agent Jessica Stone is assigned what should be a routine transfer: escort mob boss Vincent Moretti-the man responsible for her partner's murder-to federal custody. Moretti insists he's willing to testify against something far larger than organized crime: a clandestine power structure known as the Dome, made up of politicians, judges, intelligence officers, and criminals who have quietly shaped American power for decades.
The convoy never reaches its destination. A precision strike team ambushes the operation, wipes out the escort unit, and extracts Moretti with military efficiency. Jessica survives-but the official report doesn't match what she saw. The attackers weren't there to silence Moretti. They were there to recover him. Now framed as the inside accomplice, Jessica is forced underground as both the FBI and the Dome close in.
Her only leads point to something buried deeper than the conspiracy itself: Shadow Protocol, a Cold War intelligence program that never ended-only evolved into a privatized enforcement arm operating in the shadows of the modern state. Hunted across New York, Jessica partners with a rogue U. S. Marshal and her hacker brother, uncovering a system where intelligence, politics, and organized crime are no longer separate forces-but layers of the same machine.
And at the center of it all is Moretti-not as a witness, but as a key that was never meant to escape. Every step closer to the truth tightens the net around her. Because in a system built on invisible power, the most dangerous lie is the one she was already assigned to believe.