Finalist, 2025 Reader Views Reviewers' Choice AwardThe Catalogue wasn't meant to exist.It's a classified registry of the world's deadliest mercenaries—operatives hiding in plain sight inside governments, corporations, and criminal organizations.And now, it's missing.When a brutal homicide in the Catskills lands on NYPD detective Jake Penny's desk, it looks like another murder investigation. Until the evidence points to a secret mercenary network known as V.E.N.O.M. willing to kill anyone who threatens its existence.Suddenly, Jake isn't just hunting a killer.He's caught between intelligence agencies desperate to recover the file, mercenaries willing to leave bodies behind to get it back, and an NSA handler who seems to know more about Jake than he should.But Jake has secrets of his own.And the closer he gets to the truth behind the Catalogue, the harder it becomes to tell who's hunting whom.Because in the world of V.E.N.O.M., knowing the truth doesn't make you a witness.It makes you a target.

Finalist, 2025 Reader Views Reviewers' Choice AwardThe Catalogue wasn't meant to exist.It's a classified registry of the world's deadliest mercenaries—operatives hiding in plain sight inside governments, corporations, and criminal organizations.And now, it's missing.When a brutal homicide in the Catskills lands on NYPD detective Jake Penny's desk, it looks like another murder investigation. Until the evidence points to a secret mercenary network known as V.E.N.O.M. willing to kill anyone who threatens its existence.Suddenly, Jake isn't just hunting a killer.He's caught between intelligence agencies desperate to recover the file, mercenaries willing to leave bodies behind to get it back, and an NSA handler who seems to know more about Jake than he should.But Jake has secrets of his own.And the closer he gets to the truth behind the Catalogue, the harder it becomes to tell who's hunting whom.Because in the world of V.E.N.O.M., knowing the truth doesn't make you a witness.It makes you a target.