Scorpion: A Covert Ops Novel

The Central Intelligence Agency employs contractors, recruited from elite military units, for bodyguard and security work in high risk environments, and for deniable ops. The most skilled and lethal of these operatives are known within the CIA as scorpions.

One such scorpion is a former army Ranger and disgruntled ex-CIA paramilitary operator named Avery.

A high ranking CIA officer is abducted by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in a backwater former-Soviet republic. Avery is deployed to Tajikistan to identify the terrorists and secure the hostage’s release before dozens of vital operations and agents are compromised.

But a high-stakes raid on a terrorist safe house in lawless Gorno-Badakhshan Province yields clues pointing in another direction entirely, and Avery and his team of paramilitary operators are soon unraveling a complex conspiracy involving an American traitor, double agents, and Russian gangsters, to arm the Taliban with weapons of mass destruction.

From the remote terrorist enclaves of Central Asia, to the nuclear facilities of the former Soviet Union, "Scorpion" is a riveting debut novel, packed with gritty, violent action and authentic details on real world intelligence operations that will captivate readers of Frederick Forsyth, Vince Flynn, and Andy McNab.