Northern Grid: A Colin Mercer Thriller

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About Northern Grid: A Colin Mercer Thriller

One client wants Nora Keating dead. Another team needs her alive. Colin Mercer intends to discover why. Still recovering from the destruction of his Greyline operation, Colin accepts a carefully documented contract against a freight-security auditor accused of selling critical port vulnerabilities. The evidence is convincing. The opportunity is clean. Then, moments before Colin completes the kill, a second covert team moves to abduct his target. Colin aborts. Not because Nora is innocent—but because the operation around her no longer matches the story he was paid to believe. His search for the truth draws him into a hidden freight network stretching from Seattle and Tacoma through Vancouver to the remote industrial corridors of northern British Columbia. Cargo records have been altered. Identities have been exchanged. Somewhere inside the system, human beings are being moved as efficiently as freight—including an intelligence source the world believes is dead. Meanwhile, FBI Special Agent Maya Jensen is hunting Colin through the same maze of manifests, surveillance images and corrected claims. She understands how he plans. She knows how he disappears. And with every decision he makes, she comes closer to predicting where Greyline will surface next. As assassins, investigators and intelligence agencies converge on the northern grid, Colin must decide whether refusing the contract is enough—or whether he is now responsible for protecting the woman he was hired to kill. Northern Grid is Book Two in the Colin Mercer thriller series: a tense, intelligent assassin thriller about preparation, pursuit and the dangerous difference between control and ownership.

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