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ISIX: A Covert‑Ops Thriller of Betrayal, Power, and the Cost of Truth by Tavernaro, Richard

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ISIX: A Covert‑Ops Thriller of Betrayal, Power, and the Cost of Truth

by Tavernaro, Richard

Dale Swanson has spent his life moving through darkness with absolute clarity—until the night a warehouse explosion kills half his team and shatters the one bond he trusted most.

Literature & Fiction Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Thrillers & Suspense Spies & Politics
Author Tavernaro, Richard
Published 2026
Format Print edition

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About ISIX: A Covert‑Ops Thriller of Betrayal, Power, and the Cost of Truth

Dale Swanson has spent his life moving through darkness with absolute clarity—until the night a warehouse explosion kills half his team and shatters the one bond he trusted most. In the wreckage, he’s left with a single unbearable question: who set them up? Larry Martin has always lived in the shadows of his own making, a brilliant hacker hiding behind a mythic alias and a lifetime of secrets. When a stranger calling himself Mr. Smith threatens the one person Larry can’t afford to lose, he’s forced into a world where every choice is a trap and every truth is weaponized. Brought together with five strangers—soldiers, specialists, and outcasts—they’re told they’ve been assembled to rescue a missing young woman whose disappearance could ignite an international crisis. But as the team begins to mesh, fracture, and collide, each of them discovers that the mission is only the surface layer of something far more personal. Because the real danger isn’t the enemy they’re hunting. ISIX is a taut, character‑driven thriller about trust under pressure, the quiet violence of coercion, and the fragile lines between loyalty and survival—where the people you rely on most may be the ones who break you.

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