Rosepoint Publishing: Five Stars 
Book Blurb:
Ophelia Harris, a former CIA analyst who went to work for a private intelligence and security firm working in Afghanistan, has been trying hard to stay under the radar.
What seems like a lifetime ago and a world away, she disappeared from the sandbox after a raid on an insurgent money laundering operation went terribly wrong. Every operator on the team was killed save one.
Ophelia escaped. And she got away with two suitcases filled with cash.
Gerhard Mueller runs Grendel Security Group and is Ophelia’s former employer. He knows a traitor set up the ambush that killed his team and he believes he knows who that traitor is.
He wants Harris found – and he wants her dead.
Austin Medford, a former Army Ranger, is sipping a beer at an airport lounge when he runs into a woman he believes he’s seen before during his deployment overseas. A woman running from trouble.
Soon Harris and Medford find themselves being brutally hunted by forces known and unknown trying to take them off the board.
The rules of the game are simple – run, fight, or die.
His Review:
The job of a paid killer for the government has many drawbacks. One is that when you have completed your mission you are expendable.
Ophelia Harris worked in Afghanistan as an interrogator for the Central Intelligence Agency and killed one of the people she was interrogating to establish her validity. Refuse to talk and you would take all of your secrets to the grave. Once our involvement in country was completed there was a national vendetta against her.
Her boss realized that what she was doing was illegal and against US policy and punishable with death or life in prison. She was acting under his orders and he would attempt to eliminate her and do away with any threat to him. Thus’ this story illuminates the down side of working for clandestine government agencies. She moved away and established a new life after her contract with the agency was completed.
Having someone who can testify to the ruthlessness of these agencies is not in our government’s best interests. Her handler engages some of his best operatives to eliminate the threat she poses to his agency and the US government. This story will educate the reader to the underside of government service. Enjoy! 4.5 stars – CE Williams
Well developed characters and well plotted that is rooted in suspense and builds into thriller. Eye-opening and hard to put down. Many thanks to the author for providing me with the opportunity to read and review this book. Any opinion expressed here is my own.
Book Details:
Genre: Military Thrillers, Murder Thrillers
ASIN: B0GDMHNDYM
Print Length: 2342 pages
Publication Date: January 1, 2026
Source: Author
Title Link(s):
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The Author: Steven Max Russo (no bio)
©2026 CE Williams – V Williams
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