The Blackline Protocol
Elias Thorne is the ultimate Midwestern family man. He works a quiet corporate logistics job, coaches youth basketball, and spends his evenings cooking for his wife and four kids. But....
Elias Thorne is the ultimate Midwestern family man. He works a quiet corporate logistics job, coaches youth basketball, and spends his evenings cooking for his wife and four kids. But Elias is living a meticulously crafted lie. Before he disappeared into the suburbs of Nebraska, he was "The Architect"—the most lethal and tactically brilliant wetwork operator for Blackline Vanguard, a corrupt, shadow-tier private military company. When a violent armed robbery threatens his wife and children at a packed arena, Elias’s dormant instincts violently awaken. He dismantles the attackers in seconds with brutal, surgical efficiency to save his family. But in the modern world, nothing stays hidden. A bystander captures the devastating fight on camera, and the footage goes viral. Now, the ghost is out of the machine. Richard Sterling, the sociopathic billionaire CEO of Blackline Vanguard, recognizes the fighting style and realizes the man who holds all of his darkest secrets is still alive. Sterling unleashes an elite army of mercenaries to wipe Elias and his entire bloodline off the map. Forced to drop his suburban disguise, Elias must team up with Leo Vance, a brilliant but terrified young government desk analyst who intercepted the video. Together, this unlikely duo must navigate a massive geopolitical conspiracy. The Architect is back, but he isn't fighting for a paycheck anymore. He is fighting for his family, and he will burn Blackline to the ground to keep them safe.
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