The Hartley Position

A hidden network survives by never being seen. Eli Kade is about to learn how it keeps rebuilding.

After clearing his name in Toronto, former intelligence officer Eli Kade has no handler, no protection, and no official place inside the system that nearly destroyed him.

Then a BREACH message arrives through an old dead-drop channel, authenticated with a cipher only his decommissioned unit ever used.

The trail leads two hundred kilometers into the Ontario backcountry, to a remote cabin, a buried surveillance perimeter, and Diane Hartley, the vanished CSE liaison who disappeared before the unit was shut down. Hartley has been hunting the same network for years. She has no institution behind her. No authorization. No mercy for anyone who slows the campaign.

And she has a target for Eli.

Meridian Analytics looks like a legitimate private intelligence firm: government contracts, polished executives, threat assessments, and public-private security partnerships. But behind the clean corporate language is a concealed reporting chain feeding a structure far larger than any one company.

Meridian is not a single front.

It is a method.

As Eli follows corporate filings, sensing contracts, personnel transfers, and buried procurement trails, he discovers that every exposed node is designed to be sacrificed. One firm collapses, another absorbs its people. One operator is burned, another keeps the system running. Above them all sits an invisible governing body with no office, no filing, and no name in the public record.

Only a position.

The Hartley position.

To expose the next node, Eli must work with a woman who tells him the truth more brutally than any handler ever did: she will spend him if the campaign requires it.

The Hartley Position is a tense modern espionage thriller about private intelligence, surveillance capitalism, institutional capture, and the cost of fighting a system designed to survive exposure.

Perfect for readers of Daniel Silva, Mark Greaney, David Baldacci, and Charles Cumming.