Dead Drop Breach

The dead drop arrives on a Tuesday. One index card. One word. BREACH.

Eli Kade hasn't used a cipher in two years. He left Canadian intelligence under managed circumstances and built a quiet life on forty-three acres in rural Ontario. But the dead drop uses a decommissioned unit cipher, one only seven people ever possessed.

Hours later, a Russian operative is found murdered in Toronto. The surveillance footage placing Eli at the scene is fabricated. He can prove it. But proving it means going back into the institutional architecture he left, the financial shell companies, the authentication nodes, the cross-agency coordination framework quietly being turned against the alliance it was built to protect.

It means finding the person who built the breach before Thursday at two, when forty-seven allied officials sign a cyber-defense treaty in a building that's already been compromised.

He finds the breach. He misses the architect.

A precision tradecraft thriller for readers who want the operational detail real and the institutional machinery merciless.
Dead Drop Breach is the first book in The Breach Protocol Series.