September 11, 2001. As the Twin Towers collapse and the world watches in horror, a small group of people inside the highest levels of the U.S. government set something else in motion — something that has been waiting in the dark for exactly this moment. A top-secret covert operation, years in the planning, is activated. Its mission: find and kill Osama Bin Laden before the dust settles and the politics begin.The man they choose is Scott Walsh — a former Special Forces soldier who left that life behind after the death of his wife. He has been living quietly, invisibly, ten blocks from the World Trade Center. On the morning of the attacks, he was supposed to be in one of those towers. He wasn''t. That accident of fate makes him the perfect ghost: a man the world already believes is dead.Walsh is pulled from the wreckage and offered a choice that isn''t really a choice. Assume a new identity. Disappear completely — even from his own children. And become America''s most deniable weapon. His handler is a brilliant, fiercely capable CIA operative whose own past is buried under layers of classified files. Together, they are an unlikely pair: a reluctant soldier who has seen too much, and a woman who has learned to trust no one. The mission demands both of them give everything. Their growing bond complicates that demand in ways neither anticipated.The operation takes them across the globe — through the corridors of power in shadowy capitals, across vast mountain ranges and open deserts, and into the dangerous gray zones where governments act without fingerprints. Every step brings them closer to their target and deeper into a web of deception that reaches all the way back to Washington. Because the people running Operation Hawk''s Nest have their own agenda — and Walsh is beginning to understand that the most dangerous enemy may not be the one they were sent to kill.Part espionage thriller, part love story, part cautionary tale about the machinery of power, Operation Hawk''s Nest is a propulsive, emotionally charged debut that captures the raw grief and fury of post-9/11 America — and asks what a nation is willing to sacrifice in the name of justice.
