He went in as Jack Bennett. He came out as someone else entirely.

Jack Bennett spent a decade doing what Green Berets do — going into the places the world pretends don't exist and coming back out with answers. He was exceptional at it. The kind of soldier other soldiers talk about in the way soldiers talk when no one is keeping score.

Then a mission in Afghanistan changed everything. A compound. A trafficking ring. A woman named Mercy who made him remember what he was fighting for and who died because of it. The man who walked out of that mission wasn't the one who walked in. He carried a new name, a dead woman's surname, and a question he couldn't answer: who was he actually working for?

That question takes Jack Mercer, off-books CIA contractor, former Special Forces, a man governments call when the options run out  across another decade of missions and a lifetime in the shadows. From the mountains of Afghanistan to the conflict zones of East Africa. From the streets of Addis Ababa to the jungles of South America. From backroom deals in European capitals to the American interior and a final reckoning with an enemy who has been building toward him since the beginning.

Because the man Jack is hunting, Hamir, who began as a local Afghan bomb maker and grew into something the intelligence community doesn't have a clean word for, has been three steps ahead from the start. Patient. Methodical. Invisible to everyone except the one man who keeps pulling the same thread.

The Jack Mercer Series is ten books of authentic, relentless thriller fiction written with the authority of someone who has lived this world. Each mission stands alone. The war running beneath them does not.

Hamir is coming.

Jack Mercer is the only one who sees it. The legend begins.

Ten missions. One man. Start with Book One — INFIL.