Shadow Front: A Luke Ryder Novel (Luke Ryder Series Book 1) Kindle Edition

Book 1 in the Luke Ryder Thriller SeriesFormer Army Ranger Captain Luke Ryder is done with war. He's traded the battlefield for a timber-framed house in the Idaho mountains, where the air is clean and the only sounds are wind through aspens and the occasional elk crossing the pasture. He's not looking for another mission.The mission finds him anyway.When the CIA reaches out to Aegis, the elite private contractor network, they need someone they can trust—and trust no one else with. A GRU officer operating inside a civilian apartment block in Russian-held Ukraine is coordinating disinformation and signals intelligence that's already cost lives. He needs to be extracted along with whatever intelligence he's sitting on.Clean. Surgical. Deniable.Luke takes command of a hand-picked team—Carter, Theo, Chago—and crosses into enemy territory on foot. But the deeper they push, the worse the picture gets. The Russian intelligence trail doesn't just lead to the front lines. It points toward a shadow network reaching into the Ukrainian government itself, and a series of planned infrastructure strikes across Western Europe designed to look like accidents.When the mission goes loud and the team has to fight their way out, Luke realizes the real battle hasn't started yet.Shadow Front is where the Luke Ryder series begins: a man trying to walk away from war, and a world that won't let him. Read more